Research

The following is a division of my published and submitted research papers according to their primary objectives. For a more traditional enumeration, please see the CV

All preprints are downloadable from the Math arXiv.  


Rank-based models: shape and stability of market weights

1.  One dimensional Brownian particle systems with rank-dependent drifts.

- (with J. Pitman) - Annals of Applied Probability, 18(6), 2179--2207, 2008.

2.  A phase transition behavior for Brownian motions interacting through their ranks

- (with S. Chatterjee) - PTRF, 147(1-2), 123--159, 2010.

3. Concentration of measure for systems of Brownian particles interacting through their ranks - (with M. Shkolnikov). Submitted.  

4.   Convergence rates of rank-based processes with applications to portfolio theory - (with T. Ichiba and M. Shkolnikov). To appear in PTRF.

5.   Systems of Brownian particles with asymmetric collisions - (with I. Karatzas and M. Shkolnikov). Submitted.


Edge of universality: spectral properties of sparse random regular graphs

1. Sparse random regular graphs: spectral density and eigenvectors. 

- (with I. Dumitriu) - To appear in The Annals of Probability. 

2. Functional limit theorems for random regular graphs.

- (with I. Dumitriu, T. Johnson, E. Paquette) - Accepted in PTRF.

3. Cycles and eigenvalues of sequentially growing random regular graphs.

- (with T. Johnson) - To appear in The Annals of Probability.


Transport and concentration inequalities for stochastic processes

1. Concentration for multidimensional diffusions and their boundary local time.

- To appear in PTRF.

2. Transportation inequalities for conditional processes.

- (with A. Sarantsev). Working paper. 


Stochastic processes related to combinatorics

1. On the Aldous diffusion on continuum trees. I. 

- Preprint. 

2. Wright-Fisher models with negative mutation rates.

- To appear in The Annals of Probability.

3. A combinatorial analysis of interacting diffusions.

- (with S. Chatterjee). To appear in Journal of Theoretical Probability.

4. Brownian approximation to counting graphs.

- To appear in SIDMA.


Miscellaneous articles on continuous stochastic processes

1. Brownian earthworm.

- (with K. Burdzy and Z.-Q. Chen ). To appear in The Annals of Probability.

2. Crowding of Brownian spheres.

- (with K. Burdzy and J. Swanson). ALEA   7(2010) 193-205.

3. Markov processes on time-like graphs.

- (with Chris Burdzy). To appear in The Annals of Probability.

4. Archimedes' principle for Brownian liquid. 

- (with K. Burdzy and Z.-Q. Chen). To appear in The Annals of Applied Probability.

5. Extinction of Fleming-Viot-type particle systems with strong drift. 
- (with K. Burdzy and M. Bieniek). EJP.


Miscellaneous articles on math finance

1. Analysis of the market weights under the volatility-stabilized market models.

The Annals of Applied Probability 21(3), 1180--1213, 2011.

2. Analysis of continuous strict local martingales via h-transforms.

- (with P. Protter). SPA, 120 (8) 1424--1443, 2010.

3. Computing strategies for achieving acceptability: a Monte-Carlo approach. 

- SPA, 117, 2179--2207, 2007.


Others

1. An excursion-theoretic approach to the stability of discrete time stochastic hybrid systems. -  (with D. Chatterjee). AMO, 63 (2) 217 -- 237, 2011.

2. Symmetrization of Bernoulli.

- Electronic Communications in Probability, 13, 194--197, 2008. 





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