Publications

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  1. (with Tian Han and Sergey Kitaev)
    Distribution of maxima and minima statistics on alternating permutations, Springer numbers, and avoidance of flat POPs
    Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 213 (2025),106034.
    [arXiv]   [journal]

  2. (with Harold R. L. Yang)
    Stable multivariate Narayana polynomials and labeled plane trees
    Advances in Applied Mathematics, 166 (2025), 102867.
    [arXiv]   [journal]

  3. (with Alexander Burstein, Tian Han and Sergey Kitaev)
    On (shape-)Wilf-equivalence of certain sets of (partially ordered) patterns
    Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 32(1) (2025), #P1.7.
    [arXiv]   [journal]

  4. (with Sergey Kitaev)
    Descent generating polynomials for \((n−3)\)- and \((n−4)\)-stack-sortable (pattern-avoiding) permutations
    Discrete Applied Mathematics, 372 (2025), 1-14.
    [arXiv]   [journal]

  5. (with Yujie Du)
    On enumeration of pattern-avoiding Fishburn permutations
    Discrete Mathematics, 347 (2024), 113952.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  6. (with Siyi Wu and Matthew H.Y. Xie)
    The ultra log-concavity of \(Z\)-polynomials and \(\gamma\)-polynomials of uniform matroids
    Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, 30 (2024), 1370-1384.
    [pdf]   [journal]

  7. (with Joanna N. Chen, Sergey Kitaev)
    Distributions of statistics on separable permutations
    Discrete Applied Mathematics, 355 (2024), 169-179.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  8. (with Sergey Kitaev)
    Non-overlapping descents and ascents in stack-sortable permutations
    Discrete Applied Mathematics, 344 (2024), 112-119.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  9. (with Siyi Wu)
    The log-concavity of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of thagomizer matroids
    Discrete Mathematics, 346 (2023), 113381.
    [pdf]   [journal]

  10. (with Matthew H.Y. Xie)
    The log-concavity of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of uniform matroids
    Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, 36 (2023), 117-128.
    [pdf]   [journal]

  11. (with Arthur L.B. Yang)
    Descent generating polynomials and the Hermite-Biehler theorem
    Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, 56 (2022), 117-152.
    [pdf]   [journal]

  12. (with Vasu Tewari, Andy Wilson)
    Chromatic nonsymmetric polynomials of Dyck graphs are slide-positive
    Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 150 (2022), 1873-1888.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  13. (with Zhicong Lin, Jun Ma)
    Statistics on multipermutations and partial gamma-positivity
    Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 183 (2021), 105488.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  14. (with Alice L.L. Gao, Linyuan Lu, Matthew H.Y. Xie, Arthur L.B. Yang)
    The Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of uniform matroids
    Advances in Applied Mathematics, 122 (2021), 102117.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  15. Interlacing polynomials and the Veronese construction for rational formal power series
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A, 150 (1) (2020), 1-16.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  16. (with Sergey Kitaev, Xutong Zhang)
    Distributions of several infinite families of mesh patterns
    Applied Mathematics and Computation, 372 (2020), 124984.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  17. (with Matthew H.Y. Xie)
    Equivariant Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of thagomizer matroids
    Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 147 (2019), 4687-4695.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  18. (with Sergey Kitaev)
    Distributions of mesh patterns of short lengths
    Advances in Applied Mathematics, 110 (2019), 1-32.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  19. (with James Haglund)
    Real-rootedness of variations of Eulerian polynomials
    Advances in Applied Mathematics, 109 (2019), 38-54.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  20. On the real-rootedness of the local \(h\)-polynomials of edgewise subdivisions of simplexes
    Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 26 (1) (2019), #P1.52.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  21. (with Xutong Zhang)
    Multivariate stable Eulerian polynomials on segmented permutations
    European Journal of Combinatorics, 78 (2019), 155-162.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  22. (with Alice L.L. Gao, Sergey Kitaev, Wolfgang Steiner)
    On a greedy algorithm to construct universal cycles for permutations
    International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, 30 (1) (2019), 61-72.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  23. (with Zhiguang Hu)
    Determinants and characteristic polynomials of Lie algebras
    Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 563 (2019), 426-439.
    [journal]

  24. The local \(h\)-polynomials of cluster subdivisions have only real zeros
    Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 98 (2) (2018), 258-264.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  25. (with Herman Z.Q. Chen, Arthur L.B. Yang)
    The Real-rootedness of Generalized Narayana Polynomials related to the Boros-Moll Polynomials
    Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 48 (1) (2018), 107-119.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  26. (with Chunmei Luo, Liancui Zuo)
    The Wiener index of Sierpinski-like graphs
    Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 35 (3) (2018), 814-841.
    [journal]

  27. (with Herman Z.Q. Chen, Arthur L.B. Yang)
    Kirillov's unimodality conjecture for the rectangular Narayana polynomials
    Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 25 (1) (2018), #P1.17.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  28. (with Alice L.L. Gao, Sergey Kitaev)
    On pattern avoiding indecomposable permutations
    Integers, 18 (2018), A2.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  29. (with Alice L.L. Gao, Sergey Kitaev)
    On 132-representable graphs
    Australasian Journal of Combinatorics, 69 (1) (2017), 105-118.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  30. (with Arthur L.B. Yang)
    Brenti's open problem on the real-rootedness of \(q\)-Eulerian polynomials of type D
    SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 31 (2) (2017), 918-926.
    [pdf]   [journal]

  31. (with Alice L.L. Gao, Sergey Kitaev)
    Avoiding vincular patterns on alternating words
    Discrete mathematics, 339 (8) (2016), 2079-2093.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  32. (with Alice L.L. Gao, Sergey Kitaev)
    Pattern-avoiding alternating words
    Discrete Applied Mathematics, 207 (2016), 56-66.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  33. On the real-rootedness of the descent polynomials of (\(n-2\))-stack sortable permutations
    Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 22 (4) (2015), #P4.12.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  34. (with Arthur L.B. Yang)
    The real-rootedness of Eulerian polynomials via the Hermite-Biehler theorem
    DMTCS Proceedings, FPSAC 15 (2015), 465-474.
    [arXiv]   [pdf]   [journal]

  35. (with Matthew H.Y. Xie)
    Derivation of the real-rootedness of coordinate polynomials from the Hermite-Biehler theorem
    Acta Mathematica Hungarica, 143 (1) (2014), 185-191.
    [pdf]   [journal]