Semester

Spring

Date of Graduation

2020

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Type

PhD

College

Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Mathematics

Committee Chair

Cun-Quan Zhang

Committee Member

John Goldwasser

Committee Member

Hong-Jian Lai

Committee Member

James Nolan

Committee Member

Jerzy Wojciechowski

Abstract

My research focuses on two famous problems in graph theory, namely the cycle double cover conjecture and the integer flows conjectures. This kind of problem is undoubtedly one of the major catalysts in the tremendous development of graph theory. It was observed by Tutte that the Four color problem can be formulated in terms of integer flows, as well as cycle covers. Since then, the topics of integer flows and cycle covers have always been in the main line of graph theory research. This dissertation provides several partial results on these two classes of problems.

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