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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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Graph burning is a discrete-time process that models the spread of influence in a network. Vertices are either burning or unburned, and in each round, a burning vertex causes all of its neighbours to become burning before a new fire source…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Karen Gunderson , William Kellough , JD Nir , Hritik Punj

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

In this paper, we consider the \emph{firefighter problem} on a graph $G=(V,E)$ that is either finite or infinite. Suppose that a fire breaks out at a given vertex $v \in V$. In each subsequent time unit, a firefighter protects one vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-20 Tomas Gavenciak , Jan Kratochvil , Pawel Pralat

The dynamics of infectious diseases spread is crucial in determining their risk and offering ways to contain them. We study sequential vaccination of individuals in networks. In the original (deterministic) version of the Firefighter…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Guy Tennenholtz , Constantine Caramanis , Shie Mannor

The spread of an infection, a contagion, meme, emotion, message and various other spreadable objects have been discussed in several works. Burning and firefighting have been discussed in particular on static graphs. Graph burning simulates…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-17 Arya Tanmay Gupta

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

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…

We consider a pursuit-evasion game that describes the process of extinguishing a fire burning on the nodes of an undirected graph. We denote the minimum number of firefighters required by ffn(G) and provide almost sharp bounds to this graph…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Julius Althoetmar , Jamico Schade , Torben Schürenberg

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

Chip-firing is a combinatorial game played on an undirected graph in which we place chips on vertices. We study chip-firing on an infinite binary tree in which we add a self-loop to the root to ensure each vertex has degree 3. A vertex can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Ryota Inagaki , Tanya Khovanova , Austin Luo

Chip-firing is a combinatorial game played on a graph in which we place and disperse chips on vertices until a stable state is reached. We study a chip-firing variant played on an infinite rooted directed $k$-ary tree, where we place…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Ryota Inagaki , Tanya Khovanova , Austin Luo

The firefighter game problem on locally finite connected graphs was introduced by Bert Hartnell. The game on a graph $G$ can be described as follows: let $f_n$ be a sequence of positive integers; an initial fire starts at a finite set of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-13 Eduardo Martínez-Pedroza
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