Abstract
We numerically study avalanches in the two-dimensional Abelian sandpile model in terms of a sequence of waves of toppling events. Priezzhev et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 2093 (1996)] have recently proposed exact results for the critical exponents in this model based on the existence of a proposed scaling relation for the difference in sizes of subsequent waves, where the size of the previous wave was considered to be almost always an upper bound for the size of the next wave Here we show that the significant contribution to comes from waves that violate the bound; the average is actually negative and diverges with the system size, contradicting the proposed solution.
- Received 19 May 1997
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.56.R3745
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