On metric dimensions of hypercubes

Abstract

The metric (resp. edge metric or mixed metric) dimension of a graph $G$, is the cardinality of the smallest ordered set of vertices that uniquely recognizes all the pairs of distinct vertices (resp. edges, or vertices and edges) of $G$ by using a vector of distances to this set. In this note we show two unexpected results on hypercube graphs. First, we show that the metric and edge metric dimension of $Q_d$ differ by only one for every integer $d$. In particular, if $d$ is odd, then the metric and edge metric dimensions of $Q_d$ are equal. Second, we prove that the metric and mixed metric dimensions of the hypercube $Q_d$ are equal for every $d \ge 3$. We conclude the paper by conjecturing that all these three types of metric dimensions of $Q_d$ are equal when $d$ is large enough.