CUT-OFF FOR SANDPILES ON TILING GRAPHS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hough, Robert; Son, Hyojeong
• 署名单位: State University of New York (SUNY) System; Stony Brook University; Washington University (WUSTL)
• 刊物名称: ANNALS OF PROBABILITY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0091-1798
• DOI: 10.1214/20-AOP1458
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 671-731
• 关键词: time

摘要

Sandpile dynamics are considered on graphs constructed from periodic plane and space tilings by assigning a growing piece of the tiling, either torus or open boundary conditions. A general method of obtaining the Green's function of the tiling is given, and a total variation cut-off phenomenon is demonstrated under general conditions. It is shown that the boundary condition does not affect the mixing time for planar tilings. In a companion paper, computational methods are used to demonstrate that an open boundary condition alters the mixing time for the D4 lattice in dimension 4, while an asymptotic evaluation shows that it does not change the asymptotic mixing time for the cubic lattice Z(d) for all sufficiently large d.