Publications

Following are some published papers, as well as preprints. (The papers on arXiv are NOT their final versions.)

Global well-posedness of first-order mean field games and master equations with nonlinear dynamics

(with Alain Bensoussan, Sheung Chi Phillip Yam and Hongwei Yuan)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, 32 (2026), No. 59.

Published Version Preprint

A Control Theoretical Approach to Mean Field Games. Part II: Global Well-Posedness of Master Equations

(with Alain Bensoussan, Ho Man Tai and Sheung Chi Phillip Yam)

Applied Mathematics and Optimization, 93 (2026), Paper No. 45.

Published Version Preprint

A theory of first order mean field type control problems and their equations

(with Alain Bensoussan, Sheung Chi Phillip Yam and Hongwei Yuan)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society (2026).

Published Version Preprint

Optimal savings and value of population in a stochastic environment: transient behavior

(with Hao Liu, Suresh P. Sethi and Sheung Chi Phillip Yam)

Preprint.

Preprint

A Control Theoretical Approach to Mean Field Games: Part I—Global Equilibrium Solution

(with Alain Bensoussan, Ho Man Tai and Sheung Chi Phillip Yam)

Applied Mathematics and Optimization, 92 (2025), Paper No. 44.

Published Version Preprint

Viscosity solution for optimal liquidation problems with randomly-terminated horizon

(with Qing-Qing Yang, Wai-Ki Ching, Jia-Wen Gu and Dongmei Zhu)

Finance Res. Lett., 61 (2024), 105043.

Published Version Preprint

On the characterization, existence and uniqueness of steady solutions to the hydrostatic Euler equations in a nozzle

(with Wang Shing Leung and Chunjing Xie)

Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 248 (2024), Paper No. 116.

Published Version Preprint

Asymptotic behavior of conservative solutions to the Hunter-Saxton equation

(with Yu Gao and Hao Liu)

SIAM J. Math. Anal., 55 (2023), No. 5, 5483-5525.

Published Version Preprint

Stability of peakons of the Camassa-Holm equation beyond wave breaking

(with Yu Gao and Hao Liu)

J. Math. Phys., 63 (2022), 121503.

Published Version Preprint

Magnetic confinement for the 2D axisymmetric relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system in an annulus

(with Jin Woo Jang and Robert M. Strain)

Kinetic & Related Models, 15 (2022), No. 4, 569-604.

Published Version Preprint

Regularity structure of conservative solutions to the Hunter-Saxton equation

(with Yu Gao and Hao Liu)

SIAM J. Math. Anal., 54 (2022), No. 1, 423-452.

Published Version Preprint

The inverse first passage time problem for killed Brownian motion

(with Boris Ettinger and Alexandru Hening)

Ann. Appl. Probab., 30 (2020), No. 3, 1251-1275.

Published Version Preprint

Asymptotic harvesting of populations in random environments

(with Alexandru Hening, Dang H. Nguyen and Sergiu C. Ungureanu)

J. Math. Biol., 78 (2019), 293-329.

Published Version Preprint EurekAlert!

A probabilistic proof for Fourier inversion formula

(with Sheung Chi Phillip Yam)

Statistics & Probability Letters, 141 (2018), 135-142.

Published Version Citation in Wikipedia

Axisymmetric flow of ideal fluid moving in a narrow domain: a study of the axisymmetric hydrostatic Euler equations

(with Robert M. Strain)

J. Differential Equations, 260 (2016), No. 5, 4619-4656.

Published Version Preprint

Local-in-time existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Prandtl equations by energy methods

(with Nader Masmoudi)

Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 68 (2015), 1683-1741.

Published Version Preprint

Blowup of solutions of the hydrostatic Euler equations

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 143 (2015), 1119-1125.

Published Version Preprint

Long time solutions for a Burgers-Hilbert equation via a modified energy method

(with John K. Hunter, Mihaela Ifrim and Daniel Tataru)

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 143 (2015), 3407-3412.

Published Version Preprint

On the local well-posedness of the Prandtl and hydrostatic Euler equations with multiple monotonicity regions

(with Igor Kukavica, Nader Masmoudi and Vlad Vicol)

SIAM J. Math. Anal., 46 (2014), No. 6, 3865-3890.

Published Version Preprint

On the $H^s$ theory of hydrostatic Euler equations

(with Nader Masmoudi)

Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 204 (2012), No. 1, 231-271.

Published Version