Self-organized criticality
Abstract
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I review the concept of self-organized criticality, wherein dissipative systems naturally drive themselves to a critical state with important phenomena occurring over a wide range of length and time scales. Several exact results are demonstrated for the Abelian sandpile.
10 pages, 5 color figures; uses sprocl.sty; contribution to the "Int. conf. on multi-scale phenomena and their simulation," 30/Sept-4/Oct/96, Bielefeld, Germany
10 pages, 5 color figures; uses sprocl.sty; contribution to the "Int. conf. on multi-scale phenomena and their simulation," 30/Sept-4/Oct/96, Bielefeld, Germany