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Graph burning is a discrete process that models the spread of influence through a network using a fire as a proxy for the type of influence being spread. This process was recently extended to hypergraphs. We introduce a variant of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Andrea C. Burgess , John A. Hawkin , Alexander J. M. Howse , Caleb W. Jones , David A. Pike

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

Information spread is an intriguing topic to study in network science, which investigates how information, influence, or contagion propagate through networks. Graph burning is a simplified deterministic model for how information spreads…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Mahdi Nazeri , Ali Mollahosseini , Iman Izadi

In this paper, we study a graph parameter that was recently introduced, the burning number, focusing on a few probabilistic aspects of the problem. The original burning number is revisited and analyzed for binomial random graphs G(n,p),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Dieter Mitsche , Pawel Pralat , Elham Roshanbin

Graph burning is motivated by the spread of social influence, and the burning number measures the speed of the spread. Given that the smallest burning number among the spanning trees of a graph determines the burning number of a connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Eugene Jun Tong Leong , Kai An Sim , Wen Chean Teh

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…

We study a model for the destruction of a random network by fire. Suppose that we are given a multigraph of minimum degree at least 2 having real-valued edge-lengths. We pick a uniform point from along the length and set it alight; the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Christina Goldschmidt , Eleonora Kreačić

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

A directed graph $F$ with a root node $r$ is called a flame if for every vertex $v$ other than $r$ the local edge-connectivity value $\lambda(r,v)$ from $r$ to $v$ is equal to $\varrho_F(v)$, the in-degree of $v$. It is a classic, simple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Dávid Szeszlér

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…

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

Graph Burning asks, given a graph $G = (V,E)$ and an integer $k$, whether there exists $(b_{0},\dots,b_{k-1}) \in V^{k}$ such that every vertex in $G$ has distance at most $i$ from some $b_{i}$. This problem is known to be NP-complete even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Yota Otachi

The burning and forcing processes are both instances of propagation processes on graphs that are commonly used to model real-world spreading phenomena. The contribution of this paper is two-fold. We first establish a connection between…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Aida Abiad , Pax Mallee

The burning number of a graph is the minimal number of steps that are needed to burn all of its vertices, with the following burning procedure: at each step, one can choose a point to set on fire, and the fire propagates constantly at unit…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Guillaume Blanc , Alice Contat

Graph burning is a discrete-time process on graphs where vertices are sequentially activated and burning vertices cause their neighbours to burn over time. In this work, we focus on a dynamic setting in which the graph grows over time, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Jordan Barrett , Karen Gunderson , JD Nir , Pawel Pralat

The congested clique model is a message-passing model of distributed computation where the underlying communication network is the complete graph of $n$ nodes. In this paper we consider the situation where the joint input to the nodes is an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Pedro Montealegre , Sebastian Perez-Salazar , Ivan Rapaport , Ioan Todinca

In this paper, we introduce the problem of finding an orientation of a given undirected graph that maximizes the burning number of the resulting directed graph. We show that the problem is polynomial-time solvable on K\H{o}nig-Egerv\'{a}ry…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Julien Courtiel , Paul Dorbec , Tatsuya Gima , Romain Lecoq , Yota Otachi

The burning number conjecture states that the burning number of a connected graph is at most $\lceil \sqrt{n} \rceil.$ While the conjecture is unresolved, Land and Lu proved that the burning number of a connected graph is at most $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Anthony Bonato , Shahin Kamali

Graph burning is a round-based game or process that discretely models the spread of influence throughout a network. We introduce a generalization of graph burning which applies to hypergraphs, as well as a variant called ''lazy'' hypergraph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Andrea C. Burgess , Caleb W. Jones , David A. Pike

Motivated by the burning and cooling processes, the burning game is introduced. The game is played on a graph $G$ by the two players (Burner and Staller) that take turns selecting vertices of $G$ to burn; as in the burning process, burning…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Nina Chiarelli , Vesna Iršič , Marko Jakovac , William B. Kinnersley , Mirjana Mikalački