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Eric Shellef

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arXiv2026

The Pile Process on a Cycle

Consider a finite particle system in which, at each step, one particle from a vertex with a lower neighboring vertex moves to a neighboring vertex of minimum height. For the cycle C_n, started with n particles at one vertex and no particles elsewhere, we prove that the expected stabilization time is at most a constant multiple of n^3 The deterministic transportation lower bound is of order n^2. Simulations suggest that the true order should be near n^3. Chat GPT was used to reincarnate notes from 2007.

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arXiv2014

On the range of a random walk in a torus and random interlacements

Let a simple random walk run inside a torus of dimension three or higher for a number of steps which is a constant proportion of the volume. We examine geometric properties of the range, the random subgraph induced by the set of vertices visited by the walk. Distance and mixing bounds for the typical range are proven that are a $k$-iterated log factor from those on the full torus for arbitrary $k$. The proof uses hierarchical renormalization and techniques that can possibly be applied to other random processes in the Euclidean lattice. We use the same technique to bound the heat kernel of a random walk on random interlacements.

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arXiv2010

Nonfixation for Activated Random Walks

We consider the activated random walk (ARW) model where particles follow the path of a general Markov process on a general graph. We prove ARW dominates a simpler process, multiple source internal aggregation (MSIA), and use this to formulate a deterministic sufficient condition on initial occupations for nonfixation of ARW and similar variants. In particular, on bounded degree graphs, initial occupation density greater than one almost surely implies nonfixation, where independence requirements are weakened to ergodic in the case of Euclidean lattices. We show that for Euclidean lattices of dimension lower than five, initial density of exactly one also implies nonfixation. Finally, we prove the critical density for the infinite sleep rate ARW is positive for all dimensions.

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arXiv2010

IDLA on the Supercritical Percolation Cluster

We consider the internal diffusion limited aggregation (IDLA) process on the infinite cluster in supercritical Bernoulli bond percolation on Euclidean lattices. It is shown that the process on the cluster behaves like it does on the Euclidean lattice, in that the aggregate covers all the vertices in a Euclidean ball around the origin, such that the ratio of vertices in this ball to the total number of particles sent out approaches one almost surely.

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