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Fixed-energy sandpiles belong generically to directed percolation

Mahashweta Basu1, Urna Basu, Sourish Bondyopadhyay

  • 1TCMP Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata 700064, India.

Physical Review Letters
|October 4, 2012
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