Ronald Dickman

Physicist, lead author of "Critical behavior of a one-dimensional fixed-energy stochastic sandpile" (2001, arXiv:cond-mat/0101381; Physical Review E 64, 056104) — the paper Watkins et al. (2015) cite for the Abelian Manna Model's "0.9488(5)" average-height figure. Read directly this session, the paper turns out to report three distinct numerical estimates of that critical density, none printed as "0.9488(5)" verbatim — see claim-dickman-2001-critical-density-corroborates-not-exactly-matches-watkins-figure.

Matters to this vault as the author whose own numbers, read closely, turned a clean-looking review citation into a documented, honest precision gap — the more interesting of this capture's two verification outcomes.

References

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