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The firefighter problem with $k$ firefighters on an infinite graph $G$ is an iterative graph process, defined as follows: Suppose a fire breaks out at a given vertex $v\in V(G)$ on Turn 1. On each subsequent even turn, $k$ firefighters…

In this paper, we consider the following \emph{$k$-many firefighter problem} on a finite graph $G=(V,E)$. Suppose that a fire breaks out at a given vertex $v \in V$. In each subsequent time unit, a firefighter protects $k$ vertices which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-12 Paweł Prałat

We investigate a new oriented variant of the Firefighter Problem. In the traditional Firefighter Problem, a fire breaks out at a given vertex of a graph, and at each time interval spreads to neighbouring vertices that have not been…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Julien Bensmail , Nick Brettell

Let $G$ be any connected graph on $n$ vertices, $n \ge 2.$ Let $k$ be any positive integer. Suppose that a fire breaks out on some vertex of $G.$ Then in each turn $k$ firefighters can protect vertices of $G$ --- each can protect one vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Przemysław Gordinowicz

The Firefighter Problem (FP) is a graph problem originally introduced in 1995 to model the spread of a fire in a graph, which has attracted considerable attention in the literature. The goal is to devise a strategy to employ a given…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Marc Demange , David Ellison , Raffaella Gentilini

Consider a model of fire spreading through a graph; initially some vertices are burning, and at every given time-step fire spreads from burning vertices to their neighbours. The firefighter problem is a solitaire game in which a player is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Arye Deutch , Ohad Noy Feldheim , Rani Hod

The firefighter problem is defined as below. A fire initially breaks out at a vertex r on a graph G. In each step, a firefighter chooses to protect one vertex, which is not yet burnt. And the fire spreads out to its unprotected neighboring…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ming Lam Leung

In the classic version of the game of firefighter, on the first turn a fire breaks out on a vertex in a graph $G$ and then $k$ firefighters protect $k$ vertices. On each subsequent turn, the fire spreads to the collective unburnt…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Andrea Burgess , John Marcoux , David Pike

In a graph $G$, a fire starts at some vertex. At every time step, firefighters can protect up to $k$ vertices, and then the fire spreads to all unprotected neighbours. The $k$-surviving rate $\rho_k(G)$ of $G$ is the expectation of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-17 Louis Esperet , Jan van den Heuvel , Frédéric Maffray , Félix Sipma

The Firefighter problem is to place firefighters on the vertices of a graph to prevent a fire with known starting point from lighting up the entire graph. In each time step, a firefighter may be permanently placed on an unburned vertex and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-09-23 Marek Cygan , Fedor V. Fomin , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

The Firefighting problem is defined as follows. At time $t=0$, a fire breaks out at a vertex of a graph. At each time step $t \geq 0$, a firefighter permanently defends (protects) an unburned vertex, and the fire then spread to all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Bireswar Das , Murali Krishna Enduri , Neeldhara Misra , I. Vinod Reddy

The firefighter problem is a monotone dynamic process in graphs that can be viewed as modeling the use of a limited supply of vaccinations to stop the spread of an epidemic. In more detail, a fire spreads through a graph, from burning…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Ohad N. Feldheim , Rani Hod

In the classic version of the game of firefighter, on the first turn a fire breaks out on a vertex in a graph $G$ and then $b$ firefighters protect $b$ vertices. On each subsequent turn, the fire spreads to the collective unburned…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Andrea C. Burgess , John Hawkin , Alexander Howse , John Marcoux , David A. Pike

Suppose we have a network that is represented by a graph $G$. Potentially a fire (or other type of contagion) might erupt at some vertex of $G$. We are able to respond to this outbreak by establishing a firebreak at $k$ other vertices of…

Let $G$ be any connected graph on $n$ vertices, $n \ge 2.$ Let $k$ be any positive integer. Suppose that a fire breaks out at some vertex of $G.$ Then, in each turn firefighters can protect at most $k$ vertices of $G$ not yet on fire; Next…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Przemysław Gordinowicz

We consider the problem of firefighting to save a critical subset of nodes. The firefighting game is a turn-based game played on a graph, where the fire spreads to vertices in a breadth-first manner from a source, and firefighters can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Jayesh Choudhari , Anirban Dasgupta , Neeldhara Misra , M. S. Ramanujan

In the Firefighter problem, introduced by Hartnell in 1995, a fire spreads through a graph while a player chooses which vertices to protect in order to contain it. In this paper, we focus on the case of trees and we consider as well the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Pierre Coupechoux , Marc Demange , David Ellison , Bertrand Jouve

It is well known that fighting a fire is a hard task. The Firefighter problem asks how to optimally deploy firefighters to defend the vertices of a graph from a fire. This problem is NP-Complete on all but a few classes of graphs.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Samuel Hand , Jessica Enright , Kitty Meeks

In this article, we study Hartnell's Firefighter Problem through the group theoretic notions of growth and quasi-isometry. A graph has the $n$-containment property if for every finite initial fire, there is a strategy to contain the fire by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-25 Danny Dyer , Eduardo Martinez-Pedroza , Brandon Thorne

Graph burning studies how fast a contagion, modeled as a set of fires, spreads in a graph. The burning process takes place in synchronous, discrete rounds. In each round, a fire breaks out at a vertex, and the fire spreads to all vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Anthony Bonato , Sean English , Bill Kay , Daniel Moghbel
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