Ngô Quốc Anh

January 31, 2014

2014 Vietnamese New Year, aka Tết

Filed under: Linh Tinh — Ngô Quốc Anh @ 1:55

tet

Vietnamese New Year, more commonly known by its shortened name Tết or Tết Nguyên Đán, is the most important and popular holiday and festival in Vietnam. It is the Vietnamese New Year marking the arrival of spring based on the Chinese calendar, a lunisolar calendar. For those who do not know about Tết, please read an article in wikipedia for details.

At the first moment of the new year, I wish you a good health and prosperity all year round and thank you for your interest in my blog.

September 30, 2013

The Lichnerowicz equation under some variable changes

Filed under: Linh Tinh, Nghiên Cứu Khoa Học, PDEs — Tags: — Ngô Quốc Anh @ 4:54

Let us consider the so-called Lichnerowicz equation

-\Delta_g u + hu = fu^{2^\star-1}+au^{-2^\star-1} \quad u>0

on (M,g), a Riemannian manifold of dimension n \geq 3. Here h, f, and a are smooth function with a \geq 0.

  • We first use the the following variable change

    \displaystyle v=\log u \quad u=e^ v.

    Clearly,

    \displaystyle\Delta v = \frac{\Delta u}{u} - \frac{|\nabla u|^2}{u^2}

    and

    \displaystyle |\nabla v|^2 = \frac{|\nabla u|^2}{u^2}.

    Therefore, we can write

    \displaystyle -\Delta v =-\frac{\Delta u}{u} +|\nabla v|^2.

    Using this rule, we can rewrite the equation as follows

    \displaystyle \boxed{-\Delta v = -h+fu^{2^\star-2}+au^{-2^\star-2}+|\nabla v|^2=-h+fe^{(2^\star-2)v}+ae^{-(2^\star+2)v}+|\nabla v|^2. }

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September 15, 2013

Some integral identities on manifolds with boundary

Filed under: Các Bài Tập Nhỏ, Linh Tinh, Nghiên Cứu Khoa Học, Riemannian geometry — Ngô Quốc Anh @ 4:09

In this note, I summary several useful integral identities on Riemannian manifolds with boundary.

  1. Suppose that f is a function and X is a 1-form, then

    \displaystyle\boxed{\int_M {f\text{div}Xd{v_g}} = - \int_M {\left\langle {\nabla f,X} \right\rangle_g d{v_g}} + \int_{\partial M} {f\left\langle {X,\nu } \right\rangle_g d{\sigma _g}}.}

    To prove this, we write everything in local coordinates as follows

    \begin{array}{lcl} \displaystyle\int_M {f \text{div} Xd{v_g}} &=& \displaystyle\int_M {f{\nabla _i}{X^i}d{v_g}} \hfill \\ &=& \displaystyle - \int_M {{\nabla _i}f{X^i}d{v_g}} + \int_{\partial M} {f\left\langle {X,\nu } \right\rangle_g d{\sigma _g}} \hfill \\ &=& \displaystyle - \int_M {\left\langle {\nabla f,X} \right\rangle_g d{v_g}} + \int_{\partial M} {f\left\langle {X,\nu } \right\rangle_g d{\sigma _g}}\end{array}

    as claimed.

  2. Using the previous identity, we can prove the following

    \displaystyle \boxed{\int_M {{{\left\langle {X,\nabla (\text{div} X)} \right\rangle }_g}d{v_g}} = - \int_M {|\text{div} X|_g^2d{v_g}} + \int_{\partial M} {\text{div} X{{\left\langle {X,\nu } \right\rangle }_g}d{\sigma _g}}}

    where X is again a vector field on M. To prove this, we simply apply the previous identity with f replaced by \text{div}(X) to get the desired result.
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June 14, 2013

MuPAD: Drawing asymptotically flat spacetime

Filed under: Linh Tinh — Tags: — Ngô Quốc Anh @ 23:06

Today, I will show how to draw an asymptotically flat spacetime with two ends using MuPad. To draw ends, we use hyperbolic functions.

First, we talk about the end. The function that I am going to use is h(t)=\frac{1-4t}{t-2}+12. It is clear that h blow up at t=2 and approaches -4 at infinity. To use h, we use the following

h := proc(t)
begin
  (1-4*t)/(t-2)+12
end_proc

I have added 12 to the function h so that h approaches 8 at infinity. Then to draw the (upper) end, I use the following function

f := proc(x, y)
begin
  if 
    x^2 + y^2 > 3.4 
  then
    h(x^2+y^2)
  else
  end_if
end_proc

I have used the number 3.4 because I do not want my end is too tall, keep in mind that 2 is the blow-up number. We can calculate

h(3.4)

to see that this number is nothing but 3 which is close to 1 as I need. We are now able to draw the first end using the following

plot(
     plot::Function3d(f, x = -6 .. 6, y = -6 .. 6, Submesh = [3, 3]),
     ViewingBox = [Automatic, Automatic, 3 .. 8], 
     Scaling = Constrained)

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February 10, 2013

2013 Tết Holiday

Filed under: Linh Tinh — Ngô Quốc Anh @ 14:24

2013 Tet Holiday

Tết Holiday

Vietnamese New Year, more commonly known by its shortened name Tết or Tết Nguyên Đán, is the most important and popular holiday and festival in Vietnam. It is the Vietnamese New Year marking the arrival of spring based on the Chinese calendar, a lunisolar calendar. For those who do not know about Tết, please read an article in wikipedia for details.

At the first moment of the new year, I wish you a good health and prosperity all year round and thank you for your interest in my blog.

January 29, 2013

Say HI in MuPAD

Filed under: Linh Tinh — Tags: — Ngô Quốc Anh @ 5:37

I found this interesting note regarding to Matlab. In that note, they plotted the word HI using Matlab. Here I try to use MuPAD in order to get a slightly better picture.

As mentioned in the note, the full function we need to use is

\displaystyle e^{-x^2-\frac{1}{2}y^2} \cos(4x) + e^{-3\big( (x+\frac{1}{2})^2+\frac{1}{2}y^2 \big)}.

If you plot that full function, what you are going to have is the following picture

HI 0

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January 22, 2013

PhD Thesis Defense

Filed under: Linh Tinh, Luận Văn — Ngô Quốc Anh @ 15:46

I just passed my PhD defense on 18 Jan, 2013. Following is the front page of the slides I used during the defense.

The committee of my defense consists of

Since the thesis contains some unpublished results, I cannot provide the slides here but you can email me if interested.

Title of my PhD thesis defense

Title page of the slides used in my PhD thesis defense

March 10, 2012

An integral of 1/(1+|x|^2) over the whole Euclidean space

Filed under: Giải Tích 2, Giải Tích 3, Linh Tinh — Ngô Quốc Anh @ 2:46

Sometimes, we need a precise value for following

\displaystyle\int_{{\mathbb{R}^n}} {\frac{{dx}}{{{{(1 + |x{|^2})}^\alpha }}}}, \quad \alpha>\frac{n}{2}.

As such, I am going to calculate it and place the result here for future works.

In order to evaluate the above integral, we need to use the so-called co-area formula. We first write

\displaystyle\int_{{\mathbb{R}^n}} {\frac{{dx}}{{{{(1 + |x{|^2})}^\alpha }}}} = \int_0^{ + \infty } {\left( {\int_{\partial {B_0}(r)} {\frac{{dS}}{{{{(1 + {r^2})}^\alpha }}}} } \right)dr}.

Note that

\displaystyle \begin{gathered} \int_{\partial {B_0}(r)} {\frac{{dS}}{{{{(1 + {r^2})}^\alpha }}}} = \frac{1}{{{{(1 + {r^2})}^\alpha }}}\int_{\partial {B_0}(r)} {dS} \hfill \\ \qquad\qquad\qquad= \frac{1}{{{{(1 + {r^2})}^\alpha }}}\text{Area}({B_0}(r)) = \frac{{2{\pi ^{\frac{n}{2}}}}}{{\Gamma \left( {\frac{n}{2}} \right)}}\frac{{{r^{n - 1}}}}{{{{(1 + {r^2})}^\alpha }}}\end{gathered}.

Therefore,

\displaystyle\int_{{\mathbb{R}^n}} {\frac{{dx}}{{{{(1 + |x{|^2})}^\alpha }}}} = \frac{{2{\pi ^{\frac{n}{2}}}}}{{\Gamma \left( {\frac{n}{2}} \right)}}\int_0^{ + \infty } {\frac{{{r^{n - 1}}}}{{{{(1 + {r^2})}^\alpha }}}} dr = {\pi ^{\frac{n}{2}}}\frac{{\Gamma \left( {\alpha - \frac{n}{2}} \right)}}{{\Gamma (\alpha )}}

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April 8, 2011

100k hits

Filed under: Linh Tinh — Ngô Quốc Anh @ 20:52

Hello everyone,

This is a great news and I should share this immediately :D!

My blog has just gone through 100,000 hits at this moment :). I take this opportunity to thank all of you for your interest in my blog, for your suggestion, for your beautiful comments, and for everything…

As can be seen, I have started using this wordpress blog since May, 2007. However, there was not much information here until the time I came to Singapore to pursue my PhD degree. That was August, 2008. During this period of time, I have learnt much and of course I have some spare time to write down things that I think it may be useful.

A bit for the future, I will keep writing things that I usually face during my mathematics career. Further than that, it totally depends on how much time I will have. Anyway, please do enjoy what we have here.

Again, thank you and have a nice day :),

Ngo Quoc Anh.

April 1, 2011

Several interesting limits from a paper by Chang-Qing-Yang

Filed under: Các Bài Tập Nhỏ, Giải Tích 1, Giải Tích 2, Giải Tích Cổ Điển, Linh Tinh — Ngô Quốc Anh @ 16:42

Recently, I have learnt from my friend, ZJ, the following result

Assume that F:\mathbb R \to \mathbb R is absolutely integrable. Then

\displaystyle\begin{gathered} \mathop {\lim }\limits_{t \to \pm \infty } {e^{2t}}\int_t^{ + \infty } {F(x){e^{ - 2x}}dx} = 0, \hfill \\ \mathop {\lim }\limits_{t \to \pm \infty } {e^{ - 2t}}\int_{ - \infty }^t {F(x){e^{ - 2x}}dx} = 0. \hfill \\ \end{gathered}

The result seems reasonable by the following observation, for example, we consider the first identity when t \to +\infty. Then the factor

\displaystyle\int_t^{ + \infty } {F(x){e^{ - 2x}}dx}

decays faster then the exponent function \exp (2t). This may be true, of course we need to prove mathematically, because the integrand contains the term \exp (-2x) which turns out to be a good term since x \geqslant t. So here is the trick in order to solve such a problem.

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