Self-organized criticality can be translated into the language of absorbing
state phase transitions. Most models for which this analogy is established have
been investigated for their absorbing state characteristics. In this article,
we transform the self-organized critical Oslo model into an absorbing state
Oslo model and analyze the avalanche behavior. We find that the resulting gap
exponent, D, is consistent with its value in the self-organized critical model.
For the avalanche size exponent, \tau, an analysis of the effect of the
external drive and the boundary conditions is required.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, REVTeX 4, submitted to PRE Brief Reports; added
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