| Issue |
EPL
Volume 90, Number 6, June 2010
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 60003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/90/60003 | |
| Published online | 15 July 2010 | |
Conservation laws for strings in the Abelian Sandpile Model
1
Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN - Via G. Celoria 16, 20133 Milano, Italy, EU
2
Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN - Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Pisa, Italy, EU
sergio.caracciolo@mi.infn.it
paoletti@df.unipi.it
andrea.sportiello@mi.infn.it
Received:
20
April
2010
Accepted:
11
June
2010
The Abelian Sandpile generates complex and beautiful patterns and seems to display allometry. On the plane, beyond patches, patterns periodic in both dimensions, we remark the presence of structures periodic in one dimension, that we call strings. We classify completely their constituents in terms of their principal periodic vector k, that we call momentum. We derive a simple relation between the momentum of a string and its density of particles, E, which is reminiscent of a dispersion relation, E=|k|2. Strings interact: they can merge and split and within these processes momentum is conserved, 
. We reveal the role of the modular group 
behind these laws.
PACS: 05.65.+b – Self-organized systems / 45.70.Qj – Pattern formation / 89.75.Fb – Structures and organization in complex systems
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