Apollonian structure in the Abelian sandpile
The Abelian sandpile process evolves configurations of chips on the integer lattice by toppling any vertex with at least 4 chips, distributing one of its chips to each of its 4 neighbors. When begun from a large stack of chips, the terminal state of the sandpile has a curious fractal structure which...
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Springer International Publishing,
2017-02-16T19:07:29Z.
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