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Combinatorics: Eulerian Structure

  1. Linear Conditions on the Number of Faces of Manifolds with Boundary. (with B.F. Chen)
    Advances in Applied Mathematics 19 (1997) 144-168. pdf
  2. f-Vectors of Polyhedra.
    Geometriae Dedicata 68 (1997) 21-28. pdf
  3. The Geometric Cone Relations for Simplicial and Cubical Complexes. (with B.F. Chen)
    Discrete Mathematics 183 (1998) 39-46. pdf
  4. Eulerian Stratification of Polyhedra. (with B.F. Chen)
    Advances in Applied Mathematics 21 (1998) 22-57. pdf
  5. Singularities from Eulerian Viewpoint. (with B.F. Chen)
    Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics 221 (1998) 305-319. pdf
  6. Eulerian 2-Strata Spaces. (with B.F. Chen)
    Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 85 (1999) 1-28. pdf

Combinatorics: Spherical Tilings by Pentagons

  1. Spherical Tiling by 12 Congruent Pentagons. (with H.H. Gao and N. Shi)
    Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 120 (2013) 744-776. arXiv
  2. Combinatorial Tilings of the Sphere by Pentagons.
    Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 20 (2013) P54. arXiv
  3. Tilings of the Sphere by Edge Congruent Pentagons. (with K.Y. Cheuk and H.M. Cheung)
    preprint. arXiv
  4. Tilings of the Sphere by Geometrically Congruent Pentagons I. (with K.Y. Cheuk and H.M. Cheung)
    preprint. arXiv
  5. Angle Combinations in Spherical Tilings by Congruent Pentagons. (with H.P. Luk)
    preprint. arXiv

Hopf Algebra

  1. Stabilizer for Hopf Algebra Actions. (with Y.C. Zhu)
    Communications in Algebra 26 (1998) 3885-3898. pdf
  2. Quasi-triangular Structures on Hopf Algebra with a Positive Basis. (with J.H. Lu and Y.C. Zhu)
    In New Trends in Hopf Algebra Theory, 339-356, Contemporary Mathematics 267, AMS Press 2000. pdf
  3. On the Set-theoretical Yang-Baxter Equation. (with J.H. Lu and Y.C. Zhu)
    Duke Mathematical Journal 104 (2000) 1-18. pdf
  4. On Hopf Algebras with Positive Bases. (with J.H. Lu and Y.C. Zhu)
    Journal of Algebra 237 (2001) 421-445. pdf

Integrable System: Painlevé Test

  1. Singularity Analysis for Integrable Systems by Their Mirrors. (with J.S. Hu)
    Nonlinearity 12 (1999) 1531-1543. pdf
  2. The Mirror Systems of Integrable Equations. (with J.S. Hu)
    Studies in Applied Mathematics 104 (2000) 67-90. pdf
  3. Local Analyticity of Solutions in the Painlevé Test. (with J.S. Hu)
    In Proceedings of the Workshop on Nonlinearity, Integrability and All That: Twenty Years after NEEDS '79, 146-152, World Scientific 2000.
  4. Symplectic Structure of the Painlevé Test. (with J.S. Hu)
    Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics 8 (2001) 145-148. pdf
  5. Mirror Transforms of Hamiltonian Systems. (with J.S. Hu and T.L. Yee)
    Physica D 152-153 (2001) 110-123. pdf
  6. A Link between two Fundamental Contributions of Kowalevski. (with J.S. Hu)
    In The Kowalevski Property, CRM Proceedings & Lecture Notes, 146-152, AMS Press 2002. pdf
  7. An Elementary and Direct Proof of the Painlevé Property for the Painlevé Equations I, II and IV. (with J.S. Hu)
    Journal d'Analyse Mathématique 91 (2003) 105-121. pdf
  8. Painlevé Test and the Resolution of Singularities for Integrable Equations. (with J.S. Hu)
    preprint. arXiv

Topology: Equivariant Surgery

  1. The Periodicity in Stable Equivariant Surgery.
    Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 46 (1993) 1013-1040. pdf
  2. Equivariant Periodicity in Surgery for Actions of Some Nonabelian Groups.
    In Proceedings of 1993 Georgia Topology Conference, 478-508, AMS and International Press 1997. pdf
  3. Equivariant Periodicity for Abelian Group Actions. (with S. Weinberger)
    Advances in Geometry 1 (2001) 49-70. pdf
  4. Equivariant Periodicity for Compact Group Actions. (with S. Weinberger)
    Advances in Geometry 5 (2005) 363-376. pdf
  5. Replacement Theorems for Compact Group Actions: The 2ρ Theorem. (with S. Cappell and S. Weinberger)
    Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly 8 (2012) 53-78. arXiv
  6. Closed Aspherical Manifolds with Center. (with S. Cappell and S. Weinberger)
    to appear in Journal of Topology. arXiv
  7. Topological Classification of Multiaxial U(n)-Actions. (with S. Cappell and S. Weinberger)
    submitted. arXiv
  8. Functoriality of Isovariant Homotopy Classification. (with S. Cappell and S. Weinberger)
    preprint. arXiv

Miscellaneous

  1. The Higher Order Variation Method in Differential Geometry and its Applications.
    Journal of Fudan University, Natural Science 24 (1985) 453-458.
  2. Extension of Convex Functions.
    to appear in Journal of Convex Analysis. arXiv
  3. Size of Union. (with Y.Z. Ou and B.L. Wang)
    preprint. arXiv