The critical density of the Stochastic Sandpile Model

Abstract

We study the stochastic sandpile model on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ and demonstrate that the critical density is strictly less than one in all dimensions. This generalizes a previous result by Hoffman, Hu, Richey, and Rizzolo (2022), which was limited to the one-dimensional case. In addition, we show that the critical density is strictly positive on any vertex-transitive graph, extending the earlier result of Sidoravicius and Teixeira (2018) and providing a simpler proof.