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Morrow and Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Probability Models in Mathematical Physics &quot;, World Scientific 1991</p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <h3 style='margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left: 0in'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>PAPER PUBLICATIONS: <o:p></o:p></span></h3> <p class=MsoNormal><br> 1. Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Debye screening for 2-dimensional Coulomb systems at high temperatures&quot;, Journal of Statistical Physics 49, 1-32 (1987).<br> 2. Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;The generators of a Gaussian wave associated with the free Markov field&quot;, Annals of Probability 16, 752-763 (1988).<br> 3. Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;The Simon-<span class=SpellE>Lieb</span> inequality for the phi^4-theory in two dimensions&quot;, Journal of Functional Analysis 77, 139-175 (1988).<br> 4. David Klein and Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Absence of phase transitions for continuum models of dimension d &gt; 1&quot;, Journal of Mathematical Physics 29, 1130-1133 (1988).<br> 5. Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Renormalization of a self-avoiding Brownian motion in 2 dimensions&quot; Journal of Functional Analysis 80, 308-331 (1988).<br> <span class=GramE>6. David Klein and Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Phase transition for a one-dimensional lattice gas with hard-core&quot;, Journal of Statistical Physics 52, 735-745 (1988).</span><br> 7. Wei-Shih Yang and David Klein, &quot;A note on the critical dimension for weakly self-avoiding walks&quot;, Probability Theory and Related Fields 79, 99-114 (1988).<br> 8. Wei-Shih Yang and David Klein, &quot;Self-repelling processes associated with Brownian motions&quot;, Journal of Functional Analysis 84, 322-342 (1989).<br> <span class=GramE>9. David Klein and Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Some correlation inequalities for <span class=SpellE>Ising</span> <span class=SpellE>antiferromagnets</span>&quot;, Journal of Statistical Physics 57, 1049-1058 (1989).</span><br> 10. Wei-Shih Yang and <span class=SpellE>Bao</span> Nguyen, &quot;Gaussian limit for oriented percolation in high dimensions&quot;, Proceedings of Probability Models in Math. <span class=GramE>Physics, World Scientific 1991.</span><br> 11. David Klein and Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Classical <span class=SpellE>antiferromagnets</span>: correlation inequalities and remarks on the phase diagram&quot;, Proceedings of Probability Models in Math. <span class=GramE>Physics, World Scientific 1991.</span><br> <span class=GramE>12. David Klein and Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Low-temperature smoothness of the pressure for <span class=SpellE>antiferromagnets</span>&quot;, Journal of Mathematical Physics 32, 2181-2185 (1991).</span><br> 13. Wei-Shih Yang and Yu Zhang, &quot;A note on differentiability of the cluster density for independent percolation in high dimensions&quot;, Journal of Statistical Physics 66, 1123-1138 (1992).<br> 14. Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Lace expansions for interacting processes&quot;, Proceedings of 1990 Taipei Symposium in Statistics, M. T. Chao, P. E. Cheng, eds., Institute of Statistical Science, Academia <span class=SpellE>Sinica</span>, 1992.<br> <span class=GramE>15. David Klein and Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Absence of first order phase transitions for antiferromagnetic systems&quot;, Journal of Statistical Physics 70, 1391-1400 (1993).</span><br> <span class=GramE>16. David Klein and Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;A characterization of first order phase transitions for <span class=SpellE>superstable</span> interactions in classical statistical mechanics&quot;, Journal of Statistical Physics 71, 1043-1062 (1993).</span><br> 17. <span class=SpellE>Bao</span> Nguyen and Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Triangle conditions for oriented percolation in high dimensions&quot;, Annals of Probability 21, 1809-1844 (1993).<br> 18. Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Lecture Notes in Mathematical Physics&quot;, National <span class=SpellE>Tsing</span> <span class=SpellE>Hua</span> University, Taiwan 1994.<br> 19. <span class=SpellE>Bao</span> Nguyen and Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Gaussian limit for critical oriented percolation in high dimensions&quot;, Journal of Statistical Physics, 78, 841-876 (1995)<br> 20. <span class=GramE>Wei-Shih Yang and <span class=SpellE>Aklilu</span> <span class=SpellE>Zeleke</span>, &quot;Expansion methods and scaling limits above critical dimensions&quot;, Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics, V.3, No.4, 425-474, December (1999)<br> 21.</span> Wei-Shih Yang and David Klein, &quot;An FKG equality with applications to random environments&quot;, Letters in Statistics and Probability, 46, 203-209 (2000) <br> 22. <span class=GramE>Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Mathematical methods in Statistical Mechanics&quot;, Lecture Notes, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, <span class=SpellE>Hsinchu</span>, Taiwan, 2003.</span> <br> 23. Wei-Shih Yang and <span class=SpellE>Aklilu</span> <span class=SpellE>Zeleke</span>, &quot;The complexity of Loop Erased Walk in Z^3&quot;, International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 31, No. 1, 79-90 (2006) <br> 24. <span class=SpellE>Shu-Chiuan</span> Chang, Lung-Chi Chen and Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Spanning trees on the <span class=SpellE>Sierpinski</span> gasket&quot;, J. Stat. Phys. 126, no. 3, 649--667. <span class=GramE>82B41 (2007)<br> 25.</span> Wei-Shih Yang, <span class=SpellE>Chaobin</span> Liu and Kai Zhang, &quot;A path integral formula with applications to quantum random walks in <span class=SpellE>Z^d</span>&quot;, J. Phys. A: Math. <span class=SpellE>Theor</span>. 40 8487-8516 (2007)</p> <p class=MsoNormal>26. Sheng <span class=SpellE>Xiong</span> and Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Ruin probability in the <span class=SpellE>Cramér</span> Lundberg model with risky investments&quot;, Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Volume 121, Issue 5, 1125-1137 (2011)</p> <p class=MsoNormal>27. <span class=SpellE>Shimao</span> Fan, <span class=SpellE>Zhiyong</span> <span class=SpellE>Feng</span>, Sheng <span class=SpellE>Xiong</span> and Wei-Shih Yang, &quot;Convergence of quantum random walks with <span class=SpellE>decoherence</span>&quot;, Phys. Rev. A. 84, Issue 4, 042317 (2011)</p> </div> </body> </html>