Burning a graph as a model of social contagion

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Abstract: Graph burning is a model for the spread of social contagion. The burning number is a graph parameter associated with graph burning that measures the speed of the spread of contagion in a graph; the lower the burning number, the faster the contagion spreads. We prove that the corresponding graph decision problem is extbf{NP}-complete when restricted to acyclic graphs with maximum degree three, spider graphs and path-forests. We provide polynomial time algorithms for finding the burning number of spider graphs and path-forests if the number of arms and components, respectively, are fixed.





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