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20102026
most citedSelf-Organized Criticality and Pattern Emergence through the lens of Tropical Geometry

24 citations · 108 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

math.CO2026

The 2-Adic Valuation of the Order of the All-Ones Class in the Sandpile Group of a Square

Turgay Akyar, Artem Beliakov, Konstantin Delchev +6

Place one grain at every nonsink vertex of the wired square, and let be the order of this operation in the sandpile group. Thus is the least positive …

math.AP2026

Many-point tropical relaxation and the Monge--Ampère equation

Nikita Kalinin, Ernesto Lupercio, Higinio Serrano +1

In this paper we prove that a process we call tropical relaxation gives a convergent method for numerically approximating the Monge--Ampère Dirichlet problem on bounded convex plan…

math-ph2026

Symmetry Emergence in Self-Organized Criticality

Ernesto Lupercio, Mikhail Shkolnikov

We describe a mechanism of affine symmetry emergence in the maximal density regime of the prototypical model of self-organized criticality when the inverse square of the mesh of th…

math-ph2025

Limits of Equi-Affine Equi-Distant Loci of Planar Convex Domains with Two Non-Parallel Asymptotes

Nikita Kalinin, Mikhail Shkolnikov

In this note, we introduce equi-affine invariants by averaging over the space of tropical structures of fixed covolume. Applied to the tropical distance series, this construction p…

math-ph2025

Algebraic Limits of Sandpiles

Mikhail Shkolnikov

The paper contributes to building algebraic foundations of self-organized criticality answering a previously unsolved question about the limiting structure of the extended sandpile…

math.AG2023

Wave fronts and caustics in the tropical plane

Grigory Mikhalkin, Mikhail Shkolnikov

The paper studies intrinsic geometry in the tropical plane. Tropical structure in the real affine -space is determined by the integer tangent vectors. Tropical isomorphisms are…

math.CO2022★ 2 cited

Relaxation in one-dimensional tropical sandpile

Mikhail Shkolnikov

A relaxation in the tropical sandpile model is a process of deforming a tropical hypersurface towards a finite collection of points. We show that, in the one-dimensional case, a re…

math.AG2022★ 4 cited

Shrinking dynamic on multidimensional tropical series

Nikita Kalinin, Mikhail Shkolnikov

Let be a compact convex domain. An -tropical series is a nonnegative, concave, integral-slope, piecewise-affine function on that vanishes on $\partialΩ…

math.CV2021

Non-commutative amoebas

Grigory Mikhalkin, Mikhail Shkolnikov

The group of isometries of the hyperbolic 3-space is one of the simplest non-commutative complex Lie groups. Its quotient by the maximal compact subgroup naturally maps it back to…

math-ph2019

Sandpile monomorphisms and limits

Moritz Lang, Mikhail Shkolnikov

We introduce a tiling problem between bounded open convex polyforms with directed and uniquely colored edges. If there exists a tiling of the polyform…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018★ 13 cited

Quantum groups as hidden symmetries of quantum impurities

Enderalp Yakaboylu, Mikhail Shkolnikov, Mikhail Lemeshko

We present an approach to interacting quantum many-body systems based on the notion of quantum groups, also known as -deformed Lie algebras. In particular, we show that if the s…

math-ph2018★ 20 cited

Harmonic dynamics of the Abelian sandpile

Moritz Lang, Mikhail Shkolnikov

The abelian sandpile serves as a model to study self-organized criticality, a phenomenon occurring in biological, physical and social processes. The identity of the abelian group i…

nlin.AO2018★ 24 cited

Self-Organized Criticality and Pattern Emergence through the lens of Tropical Geometry

Nikita Kalinin, Aldo Guzmán-Sáenz, Yulieth Prieto +3

Tropical Geometry, an established field in pure mathematics, is a place where String Theory, Mirror Symmetry, Computational Algebra, Auction Theory, etc, meet and influence each ot…

math.CO2017★ 10 cited

Sandpile solitons via smoothing of superharmonic functions

Nikita Kalinin, Mikhail Shkolnikov

Let be the pointwise minimum of several linear functions. The theory of smoothing of integer-valued superharmonic function allows us to prove that unde…

math.NT2017

Tropical formulae for summation over a part of SL(2, Z)

Nikita Kalinin, Mikhail Shkolnikov

Let , let stand for such that . Define \begin{equation} \label{…

math.CO2017★ 9 cited

Introduction to tropical series and wave dynamic on them

Nikita Kalinin, Mikhail Shkolnikov

The theory of tropical series, that we develop here, firstly appeared in the study of the growth of pluriharmonic functions. Motivated by waves in sandpile models we introduce a dy…

math.NT2017★ 1 cited

The number and summation by

Nikita Kalinin, Mikhail Shkolnikov

We obtained a new formula for .

math.CO2015★ 19 cited

Tropical curves in sandpiles

Nikita Kalinin, Mikhail Shkolnikov

We study a sandpile model on the set of the lattice points in a large lattice polygon. A small perturbation of the maximal stable state is obtained by adding extra…

math.CO2015★ 4 cited

Sandpiles on the heptagonal tiling

Nikita Kalinin, Mikhail Shkolnikov

We study perturbations of the maximal stable state in a sandpile model on the set of faces of the heptagonal tiling on the hyperbolic plane. An explicit description for relaxations…

math.CO2015

Tropical curves in sandpile models

Nikita Kalinin, Mikhail Shkolnikov

A sandpile is a cellular automaton on a graph that evolves by the following toppling rule: if the number of grains at a vertex is at least its valency, then this vertex sends one g…

math.GT2011

Bipartite knots

S. Duzhin, M. Shkolnikov

We give a solution to a part of Problem 1.60 in Kirby's list of open problems in topology thus answering in the positive the 1987 conjecture by J.Przytycki concerning the existence…

math.GT2010★ 2 cited

A formula for the HOMFLY polynomial of rational links

Sergei Duzhin, Mikhail Shkolnikov

We give an explicit formula for the HOMFLY polynomial of a rational link (in particular, a knot) in terms of a special continued fraction for the rational number that defines the g…