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Cun-Quan Zhang
Cun-Quan Zhang
Born	1952
Alma mater	Simon Fraser University,
Known for	Integer Flows and Cycle Covers
Awards	Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award ad Eberly Distinguished Professorship from West Virginia University
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics,Graph Theory
Institutions	West Virginia University
Thesis	Longest Cycles in Graphs (1986)
Doctoral advisor	Brian Alspach
Doctoral students	15

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Comment: Please see the BLP you reference, i.e. Brian Alspach and Carsten Thomassen for format. As said earlier, you can't use web links, everything has to be a proper reference. Please also ensure that the sources are appropriate. For instance, [1] is presumably a paper from his thesis, but it does not prove he in fact completed one! For that a reference to his actual thesis is appropriate. I. BLP it is amost guilty until proven innocent. Ldm1954 (talk) 20:14, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Comment: I think he passes WP:PROF#C5 as a named distinguished professor at a major research university. But the external links from article text need to be removed and replaced by proper sources. Independence of the sources is not required for PROF notability but reliability of sources for all content is still a requirement. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:42, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Comment: Fails WP:ANYBIO requires significant coverage in multiple independent secondary sources. WVU is a primary source. Dan arndt (talk) 05:19, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

C. Q. Zhang (full name: Cun-Quan Zhang, born 1952) is a mathematician working mainly in graph theory, currently a professor emeritus at the West Virginia University.

Education

C. Q. Zhang was admitted by Simon Fraser University in 1982, earned his Ph.D. (mathematics) in 1987 under the supervision of Prof. Brian Alspach [1].

Biography

C. Q. Zhang is Eberly Distinguished Professor in Mathematics at West Virginia University,

C. Q. Zhang served as a Managing Editor of The Australasian Journal of Combinatorics.

Research

C. Q. Zhang is known for his work in graph theory, and particularly for some works in the subjects of nowhere-zero flow problems, cycle double cover problems, Hamilton cycle problems: see Zhang's publications on AMS' MATHSCINET and on Google Scholar.

Some major results in Zhang's research include the following:

Cycle double cover conjecture. He (collaborated with Brian Alspach) proved that every graph without the Petersen minor has a cycle double cover^[1]^[2]^[3].
Nowhere-zero flow. He (collaborated with László M Lovász, Carsten Thomassen, Yezhou Wu) proved that every 6-connected graph admits a nowhere-zero-3-flow, which is the best partial result to Tutte’s 3-flow conjecture^[4]. And other major results^[5]^[6].
Hamilton cycle problems for graphs, especially his method of vertex inserting ^[7].

Awards and honors

Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award from West Virginia University

Eberly Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at West Virginia University.

Publications

^ Alspach, B.; Zhang, Cun-Quan (1993), "Cycle covers of cubic multigraphs", Discrete Mathematics, 111 (1–3): 11–17, doi:10.1016/0012-365X(93)90135-G.
^ Alspach, B.; Goddyn, L; Zhang, Cun-Quan (1994), "Graphs with the circuit cover property", Transaction of the American Mathematics Society, 344 (1): 131–154, doi:10.2307/2154711, JSTOR 2154711.
^ Lai, H.J.; Zhang, Cun-Quan (2001), "Hamilton weight and Petersen minor", Journal of Graph Theory, 38 (4): 197–219, doi:10.1002/jgt.10003
^ Lovasz, L.M.; Thomassen, C.; Wu, Y.; Zhang, Cun-Quan (2013), "Nowhere-zero 3-flows and generalized Tutte orientations", Journal of Combinatorial Theory (B), 103: 587–598, doi:10.1016/j.jctb.2013.06.003
^ Han, M.; Li, J.; Zhang, Cun-Quan (2018), "Counterexamples to Jaeger's Circular Flow Conjecture", Journal of Combinatorial Theory (B), 131: 1–11, doi:10.1016/j.jctb.2018.01.002
^ Goddyn, L.; Tarsi, M.; Zhang, Cun-Quan (1998), "On (k, d)-Colorings and Fractional Nowhere Zero Flows", Journal of Graph Theory, 28: 155–161, doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0118(199807) (inactive 1 November 2024){{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link).
^ Zhang, Cun-Quan (1988), "Hamilton cycles in claw-free graphs", Journal of Graph Theory, 12 (2): 209–216, doi:10.1002/jgt.3190120211.

Books

Zhang, Cun-Quan (1997). Integer Flows and Cycle Covers of Graphs. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8247-9790-4. (Also see book review by Bill Jackson^[1])
Zhang, Cun-Quan (2012). Circuit Double Cover of Graphs. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-5212-8235-2.

Notes

^ Jackson, Bill (1999), "INTEGER FLOWS AND CYCLE COVERS OF GRAPHS (Pure and Applied Mathematics 205) By CUN-QUAN ZHANG", Bull London Math Soc, 31 (1): 110–111, doi:10.1112/S0024609397223957.

External links

[1] Alspach, B.; Zhang, Cun-Quan (1993), "Cycle covers of cubic multigraphs", Discrete Mathematics, 111 (1–3): 11–17, doi:10.1016/0012-365X(93)90135-G.

[2] Alspach, B.; Goddyn, L; Zhang, Cun-Quan (1994), "Graphs with the circuit cover property", Transaction of the American Mathematics Society, 344 (1): 131–154, doi:10.2307/2154711, JSTOR 2154711.

[3] Lai, H.J.; Zhang, Cun-Quan (2001), "Hamilton weight and Petersen minor", Journal of Graph Theory, 38 (4): 197–219, doi:10.1002/jgt.10003

[4] Lovasz, L.M.; Thomassen, C.; Wu, Y.; Zhang, Cun-Quan (2013), "Nowhere-zero 3-flows and generalized Tutte orientations", Journal of Combinatorial Theory (B), 103: 587–598, doi:10.1016/j.jctb.2013.06.003

[5] Han, M.; Li, J.; Zhang, Cun-Quan (2018), "Counterexamples to Jaeger's Circular Flow Conjecture", Journal of Combinatorial Theory (B), 131: 1–11, doi:10.1016/j.jctb.2018.01.002

[6] Goddyn, L.; Tarsi, M.; Zhang, Cun-Quan (1998), "On (k, d)-Colorings and Fractional Nowhere Zero Flows", Journal of Graph Theory, 28: 155–161, doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0118(199807) (inactive 1 November 2024){{citation}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link).

[7] Zhang, Cun-Quan (1988), "Hamilton cycles in claw-free graphs", Journal of Graph Theory, 12 (2): 209–216, doi:10.1002/jgt.3190120211.

[8] Jackson, Bill (1999), "INTEGER FLOWS AND CYCLE COVERS OF GRAPHS (Pure and Applied Mathematics 205) By CUN-QUAN ZHANG", Bull London Math Soc, 31 (1): 110–111, doi:10.1112/S0024609397223957.

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