A Note on Graph Burning of Path Forests

Graph burning is a natural discrete graph algorithm inspired by the spread of social contagion. Despite its simplicity, some open problems remain steadfastly unsolved, notably the burning number conjecture, which says that every connected graph of order $m^2$ has burning number at most $m$. Earlier, we showed that the conjecture also holds for a path forest, which is disconnected, provided each of its paths is sufficiently long. However, finding the least sufficient length for this to hold turns out to be nontrivial. In this note, we present our initial findings and conjectures that associate the problem to some naturally impossibly burnable path forests. It is noteworthy that our problem can be reformulated as a topic concerning sumset partition of integers.

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Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
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2024-08-21
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https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.12709
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Advanced Graph Theory Research
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A Note on Graph Burning of Path Forests

Wen Chean Teh, Ta Sheng Tan
Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
Advanced Graph Theory Research
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A Note on Graph Burning of Path Forests

Wen Chean Teh, Ta Sheng Tan
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Abstract

Graph burning is a natural discrete graph algorithm inspired by the spread of social contagion. Despite its simplicity, some open problems remain steadfastly unsolved, notably the burning number conjecture, which says that every connected graph of order $m^2$ has burning number at most $m$. Earlier, we showed that the conjecture also holds for a path forest, which is disconnected, provided each of its paths is sufficiently long. However, finding the least sufficient length for this to hold turns out to be nontrivial. In this note, we present our initial findings and conjectures that associate the problem to some naturally impossibly burnable path forests. It is noteworthy that our problem can be reformulated as a topic concerning sumset partition of integers.

Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer ScienceVol. vol. 26:3(Discrete Algorithms)
Universiti Sains Malaysia (MY), University of Malaya (MY)
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