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Symplectic methods for non-canonical Hamiltonian systems

Symplectic Geometry 2015-10-14 v2

Abstract

We show that, when applied to any non-canonical Hamiltonian system, any integrator that is symplectic for canonical Hamiltonian problems is actually conjugate symplectic for the non-canonical structure. This result is useful because it implies that canonically symplectic methods may be successfully applied to long-time integrations of non-canonical Hamiltonian problems, thus avoiding the need to construct ad hoc new methods. Numerical results for three non-canonical Hamiltonian systems demonstrate that (canonically) symplectic methods have significant advantages in numerical accuracy and near energy preservation over non-symplectic methods.

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@article{arxiv.1509.03811,
  title  = {Symplectic methods for non-canonical Hamiltonian systems},
  author = {Beibei Zhu and Ruili Zhang and Yifa Tang and Xiongbiao Tu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.03811},
  year   = {2015}
}

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This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a error in the theorem

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