disproved

Actually, the conjecture is disproved by $ 13 \le \chi(Q_8^{(2)}) \le 14 $, obtained independently by Hougardy in 1991 [1] and Royle in 1993 [2, Section 9.7]. Moreover, although not fully determined, it is known that $ \chi(Q_d^{(2)}) $ asymptotically attains the lower bound, as $ \lim_{d \to \infty}\frac{\chi(Q_d^{(2)})}{d}=1 $, proven by Ostergard in 2004 [3].

There are also several results on $ \chi(Q_d^{(k)}) $ for general $ k $, and in particular on $ \chi(Q_d^{(3)}) $ [3,4].

[1] G.M. Ziegler, Coloring Hamming graphs, optimal binary codes, and the 0/1 Borsuk problem in low dimensions, in: H. Alt (Ed.), Computational Discrete Mathematics, Springer, Berlin, 2001, 159-171.

[2] T.R. Jensen, B. Toft, Graph Coloring Problems, Wiley, New York, 1995.

[3] P.R.J. Ostergard, On a Hypercube coloring problem, J. Combin. Theory A 108 (2004), 199-204.

[4] H.Q. Ngo, D.-Z. Du, R.L. Graham, New bounds on a hypercube coloring problem, Inform. Process. Lett. 84 (2002), 265-269.

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