Conditions for traceability under a bound on the size of even-distance sets

Abstract

We make partial progress towards a proof of Conjecture 189 of Written on the Wall II by showing that a connected graph $G$ satisfying $\max\{\mathrm{dist_{even}}(v):v\in V(G)\}\le d_2+1$, where $\mathrm{dist_{even}}(v)$ is the number of vertices at an even distance from $v$ and $d_2$ is the second smallest degree of $G$, is traceable whenever at least one of four conditions holds. These conditions involve the vertex-connectivity, order, and diameter of $G$.