$G$-strongly positive scripts and critical configurations of chip firing games on digraphs

We show a collection of scripts, called $G$-strongly positive scripts, which is used to recognize critical configurations of a chip firing game (CFG) on a multi-digraph with a global sink. To decrease the time of the process of recognition caused by the stabilization we present an algorithm to find the minimum G-strongly positive script. From that we prove the non-stability of configurations obtained from a critical configuration by firing inversely any non-empty multi-subset of vertices. This result is a generalization of a very recent one by Aval emph{et.al} which is applied for CFG on undirected graphs. Last, we give a combinatorial proof for the duality between critical and super-stable configurations.

Combinatorial bijections from hatted avoiding permutations in $S_n(132)$ to generalized Dyck and Motzkin paths

We introduce a new concept of permutation avoidance pattern called hatted pattern, which is a natural generalization of the barred pattern. We show the growth rate of the class of permutations avoiding a hatted pattern in comparison to barred pattern. We prove that Dyck paths with no peak at height $p$, Dyck paths with no $ud... du$ and Motzkin paths are counted by hatted pattern avoiding permutations in $s_n(132)$ by showing explicit bijections. As a result, a new direct bijection between Motzkin paths and permutations in $s_n(132)$ without two consecutive adjacent numbers is given. These permutations are also represented on the Motzkin generating tree based on the Enumerative Combinatorial Object (ECO) method.

Fixed point forms of the parallel symmetric sandpile model

This paper presents a generalization of the sandpile model, called the parallel symmetric sandpile model, which inherits the rules of the symmetric sandpile model and implements them in parallel. In this new model, at each step the collapsing of the collapsible columns happens at the same time and one collapsible column is able to collapse on the left or on the right but not both. We prove that the set of forms of fixed points of the symmetric sandpile model is the same as the one of that model using parallel update scheme by constructing explicitly the way (in the parallel update scheme) to reach the form of an arbitrary fixed point of the sequential model.