DROSSEL-SCHWABL FOREST FIRE — Self-Organized Criticality

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Drossel-Schwabl (1992): Trees grow at rate p; lightning strikes at rate f≪p. System self-organizes to critical state — fire sizes follow power law P(s) ~ s−τ (τ≈1.0 for 2D forest fire). No tuning needed — SOC is the attractor. Ratio f/p controls mean cluster size, but criticality is robust.