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In this paper we study a Hamiltonization procedure for mechanical systems with velocity-depending (nonholonomic) constraints. We first rewrite the nonholonomic equations of motion as Euler-Lagrange equations, with a Lagrangian that follows…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-27 T. Mestdag , A. M. Bloch , O. E. Fernandez

In this paper, we develop the theoretical foundations of discrete Dirac mechanics, that is, discrete mechanics of degenerate Lagrangian/Hamiltonian systems with constraints. We first construct discrete analogues of Tulczyjew's triple and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-13 Melvin Leok , Tomoki Ohsawa

Two families of symplectic methods specially designed for second-order time-dependent linear systems are presented. Both are obtained from the Magnus expansion of the corresponding first-order equation, but otherwise they differ in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Philipp Bader , Sergio Blanes , Fernando Casas , Nikita Kopylov , Enrique Ponsoda

Numerical algorithms based on variational and symplectic integrators exhibit special features that make them promising candidates for application to general relativity and other constrained Hamiltonian systems. This paper lays part of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 David Brown

In this paper we propose and investigate a general approach to constructing local energy-preserving algorithms which can be of arbitrarily high order in time for solving Hamiltonian PDEs. This approach is based on the temporal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-31 Yuwen Li , Xinyuan Wu

In this paper, we introduce two types of variational integrators, one originating from the discrete Hamilton's principle while the other from Galerkin variational approach. It turns out that these variational integrators are equivalent to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Wensheng Tang

We consider Hamiltonian systems in first-order multisymplectic field theories. We review the properties of Hamiltonian systems in the so-called restricted multimomentum bundle, including the variational principle which leads to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 Arturo Echeverria-Enriquez , Manuel de Leon , Miguel C. Munoz-Lecanda , Narciso Roman-Roy

We consider the efficient numerical solution of coupled dynamical systems, consisting of a small nonlinear part and a large linear time invariant part, possibly stemming from spatial discretization of an underlying partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Herbert Egger , Vsevolod Shashkov , Kersten Schmidt

We introduce a class of exponential Runge-Kutta integration methods for kinetic equations. The methods are based on a decomposition of the collision operator into an equilibrium and a non equilibrium part and are exact for relaxation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-08 Giacomo Dimarco , Lorenzo Pareschi

We consider symplectic time integrators in numerical General Relativity and discuss both free and constrained evolution schemes. For free evolution of ADM-like equations we propose the use of the Stoermer-Verlet method, a standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ronny Richter , Christian Lubich

We propose an extended framework for continuous-stage Runge-Kutta methods which enables us to treat more complicated cases especially for the case weighting on infinite intervals. By doing this, various types of weighted orthogonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Wensheng Tang

To distinguish between regular and chaotic orbits in Hamiltonian systems, the Global Symplectic Integrator (GSI) has been introduced, based on the symplectic integration of both Hamiltonian equations of motion and variational equations. In…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-11-30 Ch. Hubaux , A. -S. Libert , T. Carletti

The formulation of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation in terms of coupled-cluster theory is outlined, with emphasis on the bivariational framework and its classical Hamiltonian structure. An indefinite inner product is introduced,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 Thomas Bondo Pedersen , Simen Kvaal

Recently a new class of numerical integration methods -- ``mixed variable symplectic integrators'' -- has been introduced for studying long-term evolution in the conservative gravitational few-body problem. These integrators are an order of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Renu Malhotra

In this paper, we present a new variational integrator for problems in Lagrangian mechanics. Using techniques from Galerkin variational integrators, we construct a scheme for numerical integration that converges geometrically, and is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-20 James Hall , Melvin Leok

We study the construction and convergence of semi-explicit and iterative decoupling schemes for an elliptic-parabolic problem using higher-order Runge-Kutta methods. For the semi-explicit schemes, which are constructed using a nearby delay…

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The Hamiltonian formalism is extremely elegant and convenient to mechanics problems. However, its application to the classical field theories is a difficult task. In fact, you can set one to one correspondence between the Lagrangian and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 D. S. Kulyabov , A. V. Korolkova , L. A. Sevastyanov

The primary objective of this paper is to present a long-term numerical energy-preserving analysis of one-stage explicit symmetric and/or symplectic extended Runge--Kutta--Nystr\"{o}m (ERKN) integrators for highly oscillatory Hamiltonian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Bin Wang , Xinyuan Wu

We detect, by using symplectic topology, invariant measures with large rotation vectors for a class of Hamiltonian flows.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Leonid Polterovich

Geometric integration of non-autonomous classical engineering problems, such as rotor dynamics, is investigated. It is shown, both numerically and by backward error analysis, that geometric (structure preserving) integration algorithms are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-03-11 Klas Modin