In this project, we studied the Firefighters on Graphs problem. Given a
graph G, a fire breaks out at time t = 0. At every subsequent turn,
certain vertices are protected, and the fire spreads to all unprotected
vertices adjacent to a burning vertex.
Our team studied this
problem on the infinite hexagonal grid, where it is conjectured that a
single firefighter every turn is insufficient to contain the fire. We
found that the fire can be contained on the hexagonal grid using a
single additional firefighter on some turn. We also studied the problem
on other graphs, and discovered results that apply on certain forests
composed of infinite trees.
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