Abelian property of the chip-firing game
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Theorem [1]. From a given initial chip-distribution, either every legal game can be continued indefinitely, or every legal game terminates after finitely many steps. The firing vector of every maximal legal game is the same.
References
- ↑ A. Björner, L. Lovász, P. Shor, Chip-firing games on graphs, (1991), DOI link, Author link