A note on the mutual-visibility coloring of hypercubes
Combinatorics
2026-03-30 v3
Abstract
A subset of vertices in a graph is a mutual-visibility set if for any two vertices there exists a shortest - path in that contains no elements of as internal vertices. Let be the least number of colors needed to color the vertices of , so that each color class is a mutual-visibility set. Let and be an -dimensional hypercube. It was proved by the authors that the maximum size of a mutual-visibility set in is at least . Klav\v{z}ar, Kuziak, Valenzuela-Tripodoro, and Yero further asked whether it is true that . In this note we answer their question in the negative by showing that
Cite
@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]