Yong Zhang

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Name: Yong Zhang

Position Title: Professor

Office Phone Number: (204) 474-6934

Email: Yong.Zhang@umanitoba.ca

Research and Teaching Interests

Functional analysis, Banach algebras, harmonic analysis

Current graduate student

Landis Wong (M.Sc. Thesis)

Courses taught

MATH 3470 A01

Shepelska, Varvara and Zhang, Yong (2018). Non-weakly amenable Beurling algebras. Indiana University Mathematics Journal 67 (1), 119–150.
Shepelska, Varvara and Zhang, Yong (2017). Weak amenability of the central Beurling algebras on [FC]− groups. Michigan Math. J. 66 (2), 433–446.
Lau, Anthony To-Ming and Zhang, Yong (2016). Finite-dimensional invariant subspace property and amenability for a class of Banach algebras. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 368 (6), 3755–3775.
Lau, Anthony To-Ming and Zhang, Yong (2016). Fixed point properties for semigroups of nonlinear mappings on unbounded sets. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 433 (2), 1204–1219.
Ghamarshoushtari, Reza and Zhang, Yong (2015). Amenability properties of Banach algebra valued continuous functions. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 422 (2), 1335–1341.
Zhang, Yong (2015). Addendum to “Amenability properties of Banach algebra valued continuous functions” [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 422 (2015) 1335–1341] [ MR3269514]. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 431 (1), 702–703.
Zhang, Yong (2014). Weak amenability of commutative Beurling algebras. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 142(5), 1649–1661.
Zhang, Yong (2013). The existence of solutions to nonlinear second order periodic boundary value problems. Nonlinear Anal. 76, 140–152.
Lau, Anthony T.-M. and Zhang, Yong (2012). Fixed point properties for semigroups of nonlinear mappings and amenability. J. Funct. Anal. 263 (10), 2949–2977.
Zhang, Yong (2012). 2m-weak amenability of group algebras. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 396 (1), 412–416.
Abtahi, Mortaza and Zhang, Yong (2010). A new proof of the amenability of C(X). Bull. Aust. Math. Soc. 81 (3), 414–417.
Ghahramani, F.; Samei, E. and Zhang, Yong (2010). Generalized amenability properties of the Beurling algebras. J. Aust. Math. Soc. 89 (3), 359–376.
Zhang, Yong. Solved and unsolved problems in generalized notions of amenability for Banach algebras. In Banach algebras 2009 441–454. Polish Acad. Sci. Inst. Math., Warsaw, 2010.
Choi, Y.; Ghahramani, F. and Zhang, Y. (2009). Approximate and pseudo-amenability of various classes of Banach algebras. J. Funct. Anal. 256 (10), 3158–3191.
Gheorghe, Filofteia and Zhang, Yong (2009). A note on the approximate amenability of semigroup algebras. Semigroup Forum 79 (2), 349–354.
Ghahramani, F.; Loy, R. J. and Zhang, Y. (2008). Generalized notions of amenability. II. J. Funct. Anal. 254 (7), 1776–1810.
Lau, Anthony To-Ming and Zhang, Yong (2008). Fixed point properties of semigroups of non-expansive mappings. J. Funct. Anal. 254 (10), 2534–2554.
Ghahramani, F. and Zhang, Y. (2007). Pseudo-amenable and pseudo-contractible Banach algebras.Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 142 (1), 111–123.
Dales, H. G.; Loy, R. J. and Zhang, Y. (2006). Approximate amenability for Banach sequence algebras.Studia Math. 177 (1), 81–96.
Zhang, Yong (2003). Approximate complementation and its applications in studying ideals of Banach algebras. Math. Scand. 92 (2), 301–308.
Zhang, Yong (2003). Unbounded approximate identities in algebras of compact operators on Banach spaces. Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 134 (1), 187–192.
Zhang, Yong (2002). Approximate identities for ideals of Segal algebras on a compact group. J. Funct. Anal. 191 (1), 123–131.
Zhang, Yong (2002). Weak amenability of module extensions of Banach algebras. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 354 (10), 4131–4151.
Zhang, Yong (2001). Weak amenability of a class of Banach algebras. Canad. Math. Bull. 44 (4), 504–508.
Zhang, Yong (2000). Maximal ideals and the structure of contractible and amenable Banach algebras.Bull. Austral. Math. Soc. 62 (2), 221–226.
Zhang, Yong (1999). Amenability and weak amenability of Banach algebras. ProQuest LLC, Ann Arbor, MI.
Zhang, Yong (1999). Nilpotent ideals in a class of Banach algebras. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (11), 3237–3242.
Zhang, Yong (1996). A note on: “Small representations of finite distributive lattices as congruence lattices” [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. bf 123 (1995), no. 7, 1959–1961; MR1301499 (95k:06017b)] by G. Grätzer, I. Rival and N. Zaguia. Order 13 (4), 365–367.
Zhang, Yong (1996). A note on the solvability of singular boundary value problems. Nonlinear Anal. 26 (10), 1605–1609.
Chen, Shao Zhu and Zhang, Yong (1995). Singular boundary value problems on a half-line. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 195 (2), 449–468.
Zhang, Yong (1995). Positive solutions of singular sublinear Dirichlet boundary value problems. SIAM J. Math. Anal. 26 (2), 329–339.
Zhang, Yong (1994). Positive solutions of singular sublinear Emden-Fowler boundary value problems.J. Math. Anal. Appl. 185 (1), 215–222.
Zhang, Yong (1993). Existence of solutions of a kind of singular boundary value problem. Nonlinear Anal. 21 (2), 153–159.
Zhang, Yong (1992). Existence of nonnegative solutions to a two-point boundary value problem for a nonlinear second-order equation. Shandong Daxue Xuebao Ziran Kexue Ban 27 (1), 45–56.
Yong, Zhang (1991). On the uniqueness of solutions of neutral functional-differential equations. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 161 (2), 426–439.
Zhang, Yong (1990). Existence of solutions to systems of second-order periodic boundary value problems in n dimensions. Acta Math. Appl. Sinica 13 (3), 272–284.
Zheng, Yong (1986). A uniqueness theorem of Kamke type for solutions of a class of neutral functional-differential equations. Chinese Ann. Math. Ser. A 7 (5), 519–527. An English summary appears in Chinese Ann. Math. Ser. B bf7 (1986), no. 4, 527