Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 91B.70 (2024), 12 pp.

Michele D'Adderio, Mark Dukes, Alessandro Iraci, Alexander Lazar, Yvan Le Borgne and Anna Vanden Wyngaerd

Shuffle Theorems and Sandpiles

Abstract. We provide an explicit description of the recurrent configurations of the sandpile model on a family of graphs G^μ,ν, which we call clique-independent graphs, indexed by two compositions μ and ν. Moreover, we define a delay statistic on these configurations, and we show that, together with the usual level statistic, it can be used to provide a new combinatorial interpretation of the celebrated shuffle theorem of Carlsson and Mellit. More precisely, we will see how to interpret the polynomials < ∇en , eμhν > in terms of these configurations.


Received: November 15, 2023. Accepted: February 15, 2024. Final version: April 1, 2024.

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