Geometric Firefighting in the Half-plane

05/06/2019
by   Sang-Sub Kim, et al.
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In 2006, Alberto Bressan suggested the following problem. Suppose a circular fire spreads in the Euclidean plane at unit speed. The task is to build, in real time, barrier curves to contain the fire. At each time t the total length of all barriers built so far must not exceed t · v, where v is a speed constant. How large a speed v is needed? He proved that speed v>2 is sufficient, and that v>1 is necessary. This gap of (1,2] is still open. The crucial question seems to be the following. When trying to contain a fire, should one build, at maximum speed, the enclosing barrier, or does it make sense to spend some time on placing extra delaying barriers in the fire's way? We study the situation where the fire must be contained in the upper L_1 half-plane by an infinite horizontal barrier to which vertical line segments may be attached as delaying barriers. Surprisingly, such delaying barriers are helpful when properly placed. We prove that speed v=1.8772 is sufficient, while v >1.66 is necessary.

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