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We study two existing extended phase space integrators for Hamiltonian systems, the {\em midpoint projection method} and the {\em symmetric projection method}, showing that the first is a pseudosymplectic and pseudosymmetric Runge--Kutta…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Robert I McLachlan

Variational integrators have traditionally been constructed from the perspective of Lagrangian mechanics, but there have been recent efforts to adopt discrete variational approaches to the symplectic discretization of Hamiltonian mechanics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Brian Tran , Melvin Leok

It is a classical theorem of Liouville that Hamiltonian systems preserve volume in phase space. Any symplectic Runge-Kutta method will respect this property for such systems, but it has been shown that no B-Series method can be volume…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-03 Philipp Bader , David I McLaren , G. R. W. Quispel , Marcus Webb

Runge-Kutta methods are affine equivariant: applying a method before or after an affine change of variables yields the same numerical trajectory. However, for some applications, one would like to perform numerical integration after a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ari Stern , Milo Viviani

We find a novel one-parameter family of integrable quadratic Cremona maps of the plane preserving a pencil of curves of degree 6 and of genus 1. They turn out to serve as Kahan-type discretizations of a novel family of quadratic vector…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2023-03-29 Misha Schmalian , Yuri B. Suris , Yuriy Tumarkin

In this paper we apply Kahan's nonstandard discretization to three dimensional Lotka-Volterra equations in bi-Hamiltonian form. The periodicity of the solutions and all polynomial and non-polynomial invariants are well preserved in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Murat Uzunca

Hamiltonian systems are one of the most important class of dynamical systems with a geometric structure called symplecticity and the numerical algorithms which can preserve such geometric structure are of interest. In this article we study…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-16 Wensheng Tang , Guangming Lang , Xuqiong Luo

Recently Hirota and Kimura presented a new discretization of the Euler top with several remarkable properties. In particular this discretization shares with the original continuous system the feature that it is an algebraically completely…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2008-10-31 A. N. W. Hone , M. Petrera

We give a construction of completely integrable ($2n$)-dimensional Hamiltonian systems with symplectic brackets of the Lie-Poisson type (linear in coordinates) and with quadratic Hamilton functions. Applying to any such system the so called…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2016-12-14 Matteo Petrera , Yuri B. Suris

We present a simple method to study the dynamics of planar Kahan-Hirota-Kimura (KHK) maps preserving rational fibrations. Using this approach, we show that integrable KHK maps may exhibit complex dynamics, even when obtained from vector…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Víctor Mañosa , Chara Pantazi

We study the class of cubic Hamiltonian vector fields whose associated Kahan-Hirota-Kimura (KHK) maps preserve the original Hamiltonian function. Our analysis focuses on these fields in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and $\mathbb{R}^4$, extending to a…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-06-03 Víctor Mañosa , Chara Pantazi

The recently-introduced relaxation approach for Runge-Kutta methods can be used to enforce conservation of energy in the integration of Hamiltonian systems. We study the behavior of implicit and explicit relaxation Runge-Kutta methods in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Hendrik Ranocha , David I. Ketcheson

This paper explores the relationship between Cartan symmetries, dynamical similarities, and dynamical symmetries in contact Hamiltonian mechanics. By introducing an alternative decomposition of vector fields, we characterize these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Federico Zadra , Marcello Seri

We propose a discretization of vector fields that are Hamiltonian up to multiplication by a positive function on the phase space that may be interpreted as a time reparametrization. We prove that our method is structure preserving in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Luis C. García-Naranjo , Mats Vermeeren

On a manifold equipped with a bivector field, we introduce for every Hamiltonian a Lagrangian on paths valued in the cotangent space whose stationary points projects onto Hamiltonian vector fields. We show that the remaining components of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Yahya Turki

This paper investigates Hamiltonian properties of the algebro-geometric discretization of KP hierarchy introduced in \cite{Gie1}. A Poisson bracket is introduced. The system is related to the periodic band matrix system of \cite{vM-M}. It…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ali Ulas Ozgur Kisisel

One main issue, when numerically integrating autonomous Hamiltonian systems, is the long-term conservation of some of its invariants, among which the Hamiltonian function itself. Recently, a new class of methods, named Hamiltonian Boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-02-24 Luigi Brugnano , Felice Iavernaro , Donato Trigiante

In this paper, we propose the diagonal implicit Runge-Kutta methods and transformed Runge-Kutta methods for stochastic Poisson systems with multiple noises. We prove that the first methods can preserve the Poisson structure, Casimir…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Liying Zhang , Fenglin Xue , Lijin Wang

We construct a large family of evidently integrable Hamiltonian systems which are generalizations of the KM system. The Hamiltonian vector field is homogeneous cubic but in a number of cases a simple change of variables transforms such a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-03 Stelios A. Charalambides , Pantelis A. Damianou , Charalampos A. Evripidou

We give an overview of the integrability of the Hirota-Kimura discretization method applied to algebraically completely integrable (a.c.i.) systems with quadratic vector fields. Along with the description of the basic mechanism of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-05-19 Matteo Petrera , Andreas Pfadler , Yuri B. Suris