smooth transformation and apparent conservation of the patches constituting the sandpile identity. For example, the harmonic dynamics induced by <math>H=xy</math> resemble the "smooth stretching" of the identity along the main diagonals visualized in the animation. The configurations appearing in the dynamics induced by the same harmonic function on square grids of different sizes were furthermore conjectured to weak-* converge, meaning that there supposedly exist scaling limits for them.<ref name="Lang2019" /> This proposes a natural [[renormalization]] for the extended and usual sandpile groups, meaning a mapping of recurrent configurations on a given grid to recurrent configurations on a sub-grid.<font color="#ff8000"> Informaly, this renormalization simply maps configurations appearing at a given time <math>t</math> in the sandpile dynamics induced by some harmonic function <math>H</math> on the larger grid to the corresponding configurations which appear at the same time in the sandpile dynamics induced by the restriction of <math>H</math> to the respective sub-grid.<ref name="Lang2019" /></font> | smooth transformation and apparent conservation of the patches constituting the sandpile identity. For example, the harmonic dynamics induced by <math>H=xy</math> resemble the "smooth stretching" of the identity along the main diagonals visualized in the animation. The configurations appearing in the dynamics induced by the same harmonic function on square grids of different sizes were furthermore conjectured to weak-* converge, meaning that there supposedly exist scaling limits for them.<ref name="Lang2019" /> This proposes a natural [[renormalization]] for the extended and usual sandpile groups, meaning a mapping of recurrent configurations on a given grid to recurrent configurations on a sub-grid.<font color="#ff8000"> Informaly, this renormalization simply maps configurations appearing at a given time <math>t</math> in the sandpile dynamics induced by some harmonic function <math>H</math> on the larger grid to the corresponding configurations which appear at the same time in the sandpile dynamics induced by the restriction of <math>H</math> to the respective sub-grid.<ref name="Lang2019" /></font> |