Bressan's Fire Conjecture for isotropic fire blocking
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.
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Stefano Bianchini and Martina Zizza, “Existence of spiral strategies for blocking fire spreading”, arXiv:2508.05324 (2025).
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