A simple and computationally efficient way of finding inverse avalanches for
Abelian sandpiles, called the inverse particle addition operator, is presented.
In addition, the method is shown to be optimal in the sense that it requires
the minimum amount of computation among methods of the same kind. The method is
also conceptually nice because avalanche and inverse avalanche are placed in
the same footing.Comment: 5 pages with no figure IASSNS-HEP-94/7