TITLE:
Note on the Burning Conjecture for Some Graphs
AUTHORS:
Qiuye Zhu, Yinkui Li
KEYWORDS:
Graph Burning, Burning Number, Octopus Graph, Bicyclic Graph
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.15 No.5,
May
9,
2025
ABSTRACT: Graph burning is a model for describing the spread of influence in social networks and the burning number is a parameter used to describe the speed of information spread. In 2016, Bonato proposed a graph burning conjecture: For any connected graph
G
with order
n
, the burning number
b(
G
)≤⌈
n
⌉
. In this paper, we confirm the burning conjecture for octopus graph and bicyclic graph.