Chip-Firing and Rotor-Routing on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ and on Trees

The sandpile group of a graph $G$ is an abelian group whose order is the number of spanning trees of $G$. We find the decomposition of the sandpile group into cyclic subgroups when $G$ is a regular tree with the leaves are collapsed to a single vertex. This result can be used to understand the behav...

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Main Authors: Itamar Landau, Lionel Levine, Yuval Peres
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science 2008-01-01
Series:Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
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Online Access:https://dmtcs.episciences.org/3618/pdf