Distance-Restricted Firefighting on Finite Graphs

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Autores principales: Burgess, Andrea C., Hawkin, John, Howse, Alexander, Marcoux, John, Pike, David A.
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Publicado: 2023
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author Burgess, Andrea C.
Hawkin, John
Howse, Alexander
Marcoux, John
Pike, David A.
author_facet Burgess, Andrea C.
Hawkin, John
Howse, Alexander
Marcoux, John
Pike, David A.
contents 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 neighbourhood of all the burning vertices and the firefighters again protect $b$ vertices. Once a vertex has been burned or protected it remains that way for the rest of the game. In \textit{distance-restricted firefighting} the firefighters' movement is restricted so they can only move up to some fixed distance $d$ and they may or may not be permitted to move through burning vertices. In this paper we establish the NP-completeness of the distance-restricted versions of {\sc $b$-Firefighter} and present an integer program for computing the exact value. We also discuss some interesting properties of the \textit{Expected Damage} function.
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spellingShingle Distance-Restricted Firefighting on Finite Graphs
Burgess, Andrea C.
Hawkin, John
Howse, Alexander
Marcoux, John
Pike, David A.
Combinatorics
05c57
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 neighbourhood of all the burning vertices and the firefighters again protect $b$ vertices. Once a vertex has been burned or protected it remains that way for the rest of the game. In \textit{distance-restricted firefighting} the firefighters' movement is restricted so they can only move up to some fixed distance $d$ and they may or may not be permitted to move through burning vertices. In this paper we establish the NP-completeness of the distance-restricted versions of {\sc $b$-Firefighter} and present an integer program for computing the exact value. We also discuss some interesting properties of the \textit{Expected Damage} function.
title Distance-Restricted Firefighting on Finite Graphs
topic Combinatorics
05c57
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12575