The conjecture on achievable burning densities of growing grids in dimensions greater than two

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Let f:N→Nf: \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{N} be a strictly increasing function, let

Gn=[−f(n),f(n)]dG_n=[-f(n),f(n)]^d

for some d>2d>2, and let G(f)=(Gn,n≥1)\mathcal G(f)=(G_n,n\geq 1). Write P(G(f))P(\mathcal G(f)) for the set of achievable burning densities. Growing-grid burning density conjecture. The following assertions hold:

  1. If f(n)=⌈cn⌉f(n)=\lceil cn\rceil for some c≥1c\geq 1, then
P(G(f))=[1/(2cd),1].P(\mathcal G(f))=[1/(2c^d),1].
  1. If f(n)=ω(n)f(n)=\omega(n) and f(n)=o(n(d+1)/d)f(n)=o(n^{(d+1)/d}), then
P(G(f))=[0,1].P(\mathcal G(f))=[0,1].
  1. If f(n)=⌈cn(d+1)/d⌉f(n)=\lceil cn^{(d+1)/d}\rceil for some c>0c>0, then
P(G(f))=[0,ϕ(c,d)]P(\mathcal G(f))=[0,\phi(c,d)]

for some constant ϕ(c,d)\phi(c,d) depending on cc and dd. 4. If f(n)=ω(n(d+1)/d)f(n)=\omega(n^{(d+1)/d}), then

P(G(f))={0}.P(\mathcal G(f))=\{0\}.

This conjecture extends the paper’s two-dimensional results to growing dd-dimensional grids. The supplied text presents all four cases as a proposed natural extension and gives no evidence that they have been proved or disproved.

References

Primary source

Jordan Barrett, Karen Gunderson, JD Nir and Pawel Pralat, “Achievable Burning Densities of Growing Grids”, arXiv:2601.14151 (2026).

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