paper

Chip-Firing and Rotor-Routing on Directed Graphs

arXiv:0801.3306 · doi:10.1007/978-3-7643-8786-0_17

Abstract

We give a rigorous and self-contained survey of the abelian sandpile model and rotor-router model on finite directed graphs, highlighting the connections between them. We present several intriguing open problems.

34 pages, 11 figures. v2 has additional references, v3 corrects figure 9, v4 corrects several typos