English

The 2-burning number of a graph

Combinatorics 2024-11-14 v2

Abstract

We study a discrete-time model for the spread of information in a graph, motivated by the idea that people believe a story when they learn of it from two different origins. Similar to the burning number, in this problem, information spreads in rounds and a new source can appear in each round. For a graph GG, we are interested in b2(G)b_2(G), the minimum number of rounds until the information has spread to all vertices of graph GG. We are also interested in finding t2(G)t_2(G), the minimum number of sources necessary so that the information spreads to all vertices of GG in b2(G)b_2(G) rounds. In addition to general results, we find b2(G)b_2(G) and t2(G)t_2(G) for the classes of spiders and wheels and show that their behavior differs with respect to these two parameters. We also provide examples and prove upper bounds for these parameters for Cartesian products of graphs.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2411.02050,
  title  = {The 2-burning number of a graph},
  author = {C. B. Jacobs and M. E. Messinger and A. N. Trenk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.02050},
  year   = {2024}
}