Sandpile Solitons via Smoothing of Superharmonic Functions

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Sandpile Solitons via Smoothing of Superharmonic Functions. / Kalinin, Nikita; Shkolnikov, Mikhail.

In: Communications in Mathematical Physics, Vol. 378, No. 3, 01.09.2020, p. 1649-1675.

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Kalinin, Nikita ; Shkolnikov, Mikhail. / Sandpile Solitons via Smoothing of Superharmonic Functions. In: Communications in Mathematical Physics. 2020 ; Vol. 378, No. 3. pp. 1649-1675.

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