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A note on the mutual-visibility coloring of hypercubes

Combinatorics 2026-03-30 v3

Abstract

A subset MM of vertices in a graph GG is a mutual-visibility set if for any two vertices u,vMu,v\in{M} there exists a shortest uu-vv path in GG that contains no elements of MM as internal vertices. Let χμ(G)\chi_{\mu}(G) be the least number of colors needed to color the vertices of GG, so that each color class is a mutual-visibility set. Let nNn\in\mathbb{N} and QnQ_{n} be an nn-dimensional hypercube. It was proved by the authors that the maximum size of a mutual-visibility set in QnQ_{n} is at least Ω(2n)\Omega(2^{n}). Klav\v{z}ar, Kuziak, Valenzuela-Tripodoro, and Yero further asked whether it is true that χμ(Qn)=O(1)\chi_{\mu}(Q_{n})=O(1). In this note we answer their question in the negative by showing that ω(1)=χμ(Qn)=O(loglogn).\omega(1)=\chi_{\mu}(Q_{n})=O(\log\log{n}).

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@article{arxiv.2411.12124,
  title  = {A note on the mutual-visibility coloring of hypercubes},
  author = {Maria Axenovich and Dingyuan Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.12124},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

the manuscript is now included in [arXiv:2402.04791]

R2 v1 2026-06-28T20:04:23.714Z