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In 2016, Bonato, Janssen, and Roshanbin introduced graph burning as a discrete process that models the spread of social contagion. Although the burning process is a simple algorithm, the problem of determining the least number of rounds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Ta Sheng Tan , Wen Chean Teh

The graph burning problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that helps quantify the vulnerability of a graph to contagion. This paper introduces a simple farthest-first traversal-based approximation algorithm for this problem…

Graph burning is a discrete-time process on graphs, where vertices are sequentially burned, and burned vertices cause their neighbours to burn over time. We consider extremal properties of this process in the new setting where the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Anthony Bonato , Karen Gunderson , Amy Shaw

The concept of graph burning and burning number ($bn(G)$) of a graph G was introduced recently [1]. Graph burning models the spread of contagion (fire) in a graph in discrete time steps. $bn(G)$ is the minimum time needed to burn a graph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Zahra Rezai Farokh , Maryam Tahmasbi , Zahra Haj Rajab Ali Tehrani , Yousof Buali

Graph burning is a discrete time process which can be used to model the spread of social contagion. One is initially given a graph of unburned vertices. At each round (time step), one vertex is burned; unburned vertices with at least one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Yukihiro Murakami

A procedure called \textit{graph burning} was introduced to facilitate the modelling of spread of an alarm, a social contagion, or a social influence or emotion on graphs and networks. Graph burning runs on discrete time-steps (or rounds).…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Arya Tanmay Gupta

Graph burning models the spread of information or contagion in a graph. At each time step, two events occur: neighbours of already burned vertices become burned, and a new vertex is chosen to be burned. The big conjecture is known as the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Danielle Cox , M. E. Messinger , Kerry Ojakian

The Burning Number Problem (BNP) models the spread of information or contagion in a network through a discrete-time process on a graph. At each step, one new vertex is selected as a burning source, while fire simultaneously spreads from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Dhanyamol Antony , L. Sunil Chandran , Anita Das , Shirish Gosavi , Dalu Jacob , Shashanka Kulamarva

Liminal burning generalizes both the burning and cooling processes in graphs. In $k$-liminal burning, a Saboteur reveals $k$-sets of vertices in each round, with the goal of extending the length of the game, and the Arsonist must choose…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Anthony Bonato , Trent G. Marbach , John Marcoux , Teddy Mishura

Graph burning is a graph process that models the spread of social contagion. Initially, all the vertices of a graph $G$ are unburnt. At each step, an unburnt vertex is put on fire and the fire from burnt vertices of the previous step…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Sandip Das , Sk Samim Islam , Ritam M Mitra , Sanchita Paul

Given a graph $G$, the optimization version of the graph burning problem seeks for a sequence of vertices, $(u_1,u_2,...,u_p) \in V(G)^p$, with minimum $p$ and such that every $v \in V(G)$ has distance at most $p-i$ to some vertex $u_i$.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Jesús García-Díaz , José Alejandro Cornejo-Acosta , Joel Trejo Sánchez

We study a variant of the chip-firing game called the diffusion game. In the diffusion game, we begin with some integer labelling of the vertices of a graph, interpreted as a number of chips on each vertex, and then for each subsequent step…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-16 Andrew Carlotti , Rebekah Herrman

Graph burning is a process of information spreading through the network by an agent in discrete steps. The problem is to find an optimal sequence of nodes which have to be given information so that the network is covered in least number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Rahul Kumar Gautam , Anjeneya Swami Kare , S. Durga Bhavani

The Graph Burning Problem (GBP) is a combinatorial optimization problem that has gained relevance as a tool for quantifying a graph's vulnerability to contagion. Although it is based on a very simple propagation model, its decision version…

The Burning Number Conjecture, that a graph on $n$ vertices can be burned in at most $\lceil \sqrt{n} \ \rceil$ rounds, has been of central interest for the past several years. Much of the literature toward its resolution focuses on two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Mohamed Omar , Vibha Rohilla

We study the two-player safe game of Competitive Diffusion, a game-theoretic model for the diffusion of technologies or influence through a social network. In game theory, safe strategies are mixed strategies with a minimal expected gain…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Jeannette Janssen , Celeste Vautour

We study a two-person game played on graphs based on the widely studied chip-firing game. Players Max and Min alternately place chips on the vertices of a graph. When a vertex accumulates as many chips as its degree, it fires, sending one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-09 A. Bonato , W. Kinnersley , P. Pralat

Consider an information diffusion process on a graph $G$ that starts with $k>0$ burnt vertices, and at each subsequent step, burns the neighbors of the currently burnt vertices, as well as $k$ other unburnt vertices. The \emph{$k$-burning…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Debajyoti Mondal , N. Parthiban , V. Kavitha , Indra Rajasingh

We study a variant of the chip-firing game called \emph{diffusion}. In diffusion on a graph, each vertex of the graph is initially labelled with an integer interpreted as the number of chips at that vertex, and at each subsequent step, each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Jason Long , Bhargav Narayanan

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, the problem of \gb{} is to find a sequence of nodes from $V$, called burning sequence, in order to burn the whole graph. This is a discrete-step process, in each step an unburned vertex is selected as an agent to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Rahul Kumar Gautam , Anjeneya Swami Kare , Durga Bhavani S