Janowsky Steven A., Laberge Claude A. Exact solutions for a mean-field Abelian sandpile (25K, LaTeX) ABSTRACT. We introduce a model for a sandpile, with N sites, critical height N and each site connected to every other site. It is thus a mean-field model in the spin-glass sense. We find an exact solution for the steady state probability distribution of avalanche sizes, and discuss its asymptotics for large N.