Bressan's Fire Conjecture for isotropic fire blocking
Let the fire propagate with unit speed in all directions from , and let the barrier be constructed at constant speed , so that and . An admissible strategy is blocking when its burned region is bounded. Bressan's Fire Conjecture. If , no admissible blocking strategy exists. This conjecture identifies the expected sharp threshold between possible and impossible isotropic fire confinement; the result is known for (existence) and for (nonexistence), leaving the intermediate range open.
References
Primary source
Stefano Bianchini and Martina Zizza, “Existence of spiral strategies for blocking fire spreading”, arXiv:2508.05324 (2025).
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