Research
Research interests
Low-dimensional topology and differential geometry: gauge theory with noncompact gauge group; Z/2 harmonic spinors and related geometry problems; Higgs bundles and the geometry of the Hitchin moduli space.
Papers
- (with Jiahuang Chen) Examples of Z/2-Harmonic 1-Forms, arXiv:2609.18915.
- (with Jie Liu, Siqing Zhang) Local obstructions to the surjectivity of spectral morphisms, arXiv:2609.17139.
- (with Jiahuang Chen, Willem Adriaan Salm) Prescribed Singular Sets for Z/2-Harmonic 1-Forms on Rn, arXiv:2609.13059.
- (with Greg Parker, Thomas Walpuski) The universal moduli space of non-degenerate Z/2 harmonic spinors, arXiv:2609.02848.
- (with Jiahuang Chen, Dashen Yan) Calabi Surgery for Z/2 harmonic 1-forms, arxiv:2607.24281, submitted.
- (with Willem Adriaan Salm, Andriy Haydys) Deformation rigidity for Z/2 eigensections, arxiv:2604.17044, submitted.
- (with Willem Adriaan Salm) Metric perturbations and deformations of k-nondegenerate Z/2-harmonic 1-forms, arxiv:2603.14949, submitted.
- (with Jiahuang Chen) On the non-Archimedean Hitchin map for SL2(F), arXiv:2511.03469, submitted.
- (with Johannes Horn, Nianzi Li) The asymptotics of the SL2(C)-Hitchin metric on the singular locus: subintegrable systems, arXiv:2506.04957.
- (with Richard Wentworth, Boyu Zhang) Z2 harmonic 1-forms, R-trees and Morgan-Shalen compactification, arXiv:2409.04956, to appear Inventiones Mathematicae
- (with Greg Parker) Connect sum and torus sum formulas for Z2 harmonic spinors and 1-forms on 3-manifolds, arXiv:2407.10922, to appear, Geometry&Topology.
- (with Jiahuang Chen) On the existence and rigidity of critical Z2 eigenvalues, arXiv:2404.05387, submitted.
- (with Jie Liu, Ngaiming Mok) The spectral base and quotients of bounded symmetric domains by cocompact lattices, arXiv:2401.15852, submitted.
- (with Jie Liu) The spectral variety of rank two Higgs bundle over projective variety, arXiv:2310.18934, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 129 (2024), no. 5, Paper No. e70004, 45 pp.
- (with Rafe Mazzeo, Xuesen Na, Richard Wentworth) The Algebraic and Analytic Compactifications of the Hitchin Moduli Space, arXiv:2304.08198, Moduli 1 (2024), Paper No. e2, 45 pp.
- Existence of nondegenerate Z2 harmonic 1-forms via Z3 symmetry, arXiv:2202.12283, Geom. Dedicata 219 (2025), no. 2, Paper No. 28, 13 pp.
- The Branched Deformations of Special Lagrangian Submanifold, arXiv:2202.12282, GAFA, Volume 33, pages 1266–1321, (2023).
- On the Moduli Space of the Octonionic Nahm's Equations, arXiv:2006.11625, CAG, Volume 32, No 4, (2024).
- The behavior of sequences of solutions to the Hitchin-Simpson equations, arXiv:2002.08109, submitted.
- (with Rafe Mazzeo) Opers and the twisted Bogomolny equations, arXiv:1902.11183, Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 55 (2022), no. 5, 1329–1356.
- (with Rafe Mazzeo) Classification of Nahm pole solutions of the Kapustin-Witten equations on S1 × Σ × R+, to appear in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.
- (with Thomas Walpuski) Hecke modifications of Higgs bundles and the extended Bogomolny equation, J. Geom. Phys. 146 (2019), 103487, 17 pp.
- The Expansions of the Nahm Pole Solutions to the Kapustin-Witten Equations, arXiv:1808.03886, published as part of my Phd thesis.
- (with Rafe Mazzeo) The Extended Bogomolny Equations and Generalized Nahm Pole Solutions II, Duke Math Journal, 169 (2020), no. 12, 2281–2335.
- (with Rafe Mazzeo) The Extended Bogomolny Equations and Generalized Nahm Pole Solutions, Geometry &Topology, Volume 23, Number 5, 2019.
- A Gluing Theorem for the Kapustin-Witten Equations with a Nahm Pole, Journal of Topology, Volume.12, Issue.3, 2019.
- Rotationally Invariant Singular Solutions to the Kapustin-Witten Equations, Math Research Letters, Vol.25, no.4.
Interdisciplinary collaborations
- (with Yue Wang) Inference on autoregulation in gene expression, J. Math. Biol. 86 (2023), no. 5, Paper No. 87.