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Using a Newtonian model of the Solar System with all 8 planets, we perform extensive tests on various symplectic integrators of high orders, searching for the best splitting scheme for long term studies in the Solar System. These…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ariadna Farrés , Jacques Laskar , Sergio Blanes , Fernando Casas , Joseba Makazaga , Ander Murua

The Kepler-Heisenberg problem is that of determining the motion of a planet around a sun in the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group. The sub-Riemannian Hamiltonian provides the kinetic energy, and the gravitational potential is given by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Victor Dods , Corey Shanbrom

Symplectic integration algorithms are well-suited for long-term integrations of Hamiltonian systems because they preserve the geometric structure of the Hamiltonian flow. However, this desirable property is generally lost when adaptive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 Miguel Preto , Scott Tremaine

The H\'{e}non-Heiles potential is undoubtedly one of the most simple, classical and characteristic Hamiltonian systems. The aim of this work is to reveal the influence of the value of the total orbital energy, which is the only parameter of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

We investigate the properties of motion in a map model derived from a galactic Hamiltonian made up of perturbed elliptic oscillators. The phase space portrait is obtained in all three different cases using the map and numerical integration…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 N. D. Caranicolas , Ch. L. Vozikis

The phase space of a Hamiltonian system is symplectic. However, the post-Newtonian Hamiltonian formulation of spinning compact binaries in existing publications does not have this property, when position, momentum and spin variables $[X, P,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Xin Wu , Yi Xie

Due to the chaotic nature of the Solar System, the question of its long-term stability can only be answered in a statistical sense, for instance, based on numerical ensemble integrations of nearby orbits. Destabilization of the inner…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-26 Richard E. Zeebe

In this paper, two models of interest for Celestial Mechanics are presented and analysed, using both analytic and numerical techniques, from the point of view of the possible presence of regular and/or chaotic motion, as well as the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Irene De Blasi

Depending on the planetary orbit around the host star(s), a planet could orbit either one or both stars in a binary system as S-type or P-type, respectively. We have analysed the dynamics of the S-type planetary system in HD 196885 AB with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Suman Satyal , Tobias Cornelius Hinse , Billy Quarles , Joaquin Noyola

We present and compare different numerical schemes for the integration of the variational equations of autonomous Hamiltonian systems whose kinetic energy is quadratic in the generalized momenta and whose potential is a function of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-17 Ch. Skokos , E. Gerlach

In order to describe the impact of different geometric structures and constraints for the dynamics of a Hamiltonian system, in this paper, for a magnetic Hamiltonian system defined by a magnetic symplectic form, we first drive precisely the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Hong Wang

We define the general Hill system and briefly analyze its dynamical behavior. A particular Hill system representing the interaction of a Keplerian binary system with a normally incident circularly polarized gravitational wave is discussed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Chicone , B. Mashhoon , D. G. Retzloff

The important phenomenon of "stickiness" of chaotic orbits in low dimensional dynamical systems has been investigated for several decades, in view of its applications to various areas of physics, such as classical and statistical mechanics,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-16 Tassos Bountis , Konstantinos Kaloudis , Helen Christodoulidi

We present new splitting methods designed for the numerical integration of near-integrable Hamiltonian systems, and in particular for planetary N-body problems, when one is interested in very accurate results over a large time span. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Sergio Blanes , Fernando Casas , Ariadna Farres , Jacques Laskar , Joseba Makazaga , Ander Murua

We investigate the performance of various methods of symplectic integration, which are based on two part splitting of the integration operator, for the numerical integration of multidimensional Hamiltonian systems. We implement these…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Bob Senyange

Symplectic integrator plays a pivotal role in the long-term tracking of charged particles within accelerators. To get symplectic maps in accurate simulation of single-particle trajectories, two key components are addressed: precise…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Jie Li , Kedong Wang , Kai Wang , Xu Zhang , Xueqing Yan , Kun Zhu

Symplectic integrators are widely used for the study of planetary dynamics and other $N$-body problems. In a study of the outer Solar system, we demonstrate that individual symplectic integrations can yield biased errors in the semi-major…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-15 David M. Hernandez , Eric Agol , Matthew J. Holman , Sam Hadden

The kinematics of the Solar zenith passage on the Earth was shown as a simple harmonic motion. This analytical model used the uniform circular motion to describe the Earth's rotation relative to its axis and relative to the Sun, also this…

Popular Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 Paco Talero , Fernanda Santana y César Mora

We describe the symplectic structure and Hamiltonian dynamics for a class of Grassmannian manifolds. Using the two dimensional sphere ($S^2$) and disc ($D^2$) as illustrative cases, we write their path integral representations using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 S. G. Rajeev , S. Kalyana Rama , Siddhartha Sen

Time-reversible symplectic methods, which are precisely compatible with Liouville's phase-volume-conservation theorem, are often recommended for computational simulations of Hamiltonian mechanics. Lack of energy drift is an apparent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-20 William Graham Hoover , Carol Griswold Hoover