title: Avalanche and spreading exponents in systems with absorbing states.
abstract: We present generic scaling laws relating spreading critical exponents and avalanche exponents (in the sense of self-organized criticality) in general systems with absorbing states. Using these scaling laws we present a collection of the state-of-the-art exponents for directed percolation, dynamical percolation, and other universality classes. This collection of results should help to elucidate the connections of self-organized criticality and systems with absorbing states. In particular, some nonuniversality in avalanche exponents is predicted for systems with many absorbing states.
authors.affiliation: The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), P.O. Box 586, 34100 Trieste, Italy.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Muñoz
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dickman
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vespignani
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zapperi