Diameter-two graphs whose mutual-visibility chromatic number equals their chromatic number

Abstract

A set $S$ of vertices of a graph $G$ is a mutual-visibility set if every pair of vertices of $S$ is joined by a shortest path whose internal vertices avoid $S$, and the mutual-visibility chromatic number $χ_μ(G)$ is the least number of mutual-visibility sets into which $V(G)$ can be partitioned. Klavžar, Kuziak, Valenzuela Tripodoro and Yero (2025) proved that $χ_μ(G)\leχ(G)$ whenever $G$ has diameter two, observed that equality holds for complete bipartite graphs, and asked whether there are any other diameter-two graphs attaining equality. We answer this question in the affirmative. We construct a graph $G_{11}$ of order 11 and diameter two with $χ_μ(G_{11})=χ(G_{11})=3$, and an infinite family of such graphs obtained from $G_{11}$ by replacing one vertex with pairwise non-adjacent copies of it.