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Recently, a family of unconventional integrators for ODEs with polynomial vector fields was proposed, based on the polarization of vector fields. The simplest instance is the by now famous Kahan discretization for quadratic vector fields.…
Kahan introduced an explicit method of discretization for systems of first order differential equations with nonlinearities of degree at most two (quadratic vector fields). Kahan's method has attracted much interest due to the fact that it…
We show that Kahan's discretization of quadratic vector fields is equivalent to a Runge--Kutta method. When the vector field is Hamiltonian on either a symplectic vector space or a Poisson vector space with constant Poisson structure, the…
We apply Kahan's discretisation method to three classes of 2-dimensional quadratic vector fields with quadratic, resp cubic, resp quartic Hamiltonians. We show that the maps obtained in this way can be geometrically understood as the…
Given a quadratic vector field on \mathbb{R}^n possessing a quadratic first integral depending on two of the independent variables, we give a constructive proof that Kahan's discretization method exactly preserves a nearby modifed integral.…
Applying Kahan's discretization to the reduced Nahm equations, we obtain two classes of integrable mappings.
We present several novel examples of integrable quadratic vector fields for which Kahan's discretization method preserves integrability. Our examples include generalized Suslov and Ishii systems, Nambu systems, Riccati systems, and the…
We present some new families of quadratic vector fields, not necessarily integrable, for which their Kahan-Hirota-Kimura discretization exhibits the preservation of some of the characterizing features of the underlying continuous systems…
Kahan discretization is applicable to any quadratic vector field and produces a birational map which approximates the shift along the phase flow. For a planar quadratic Hamiltonian vector field with a linear Poisson tensor and with a…
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…
We discuss the singularity structure of Kahan discretizations of a class of quadratric vector fields and provide a classification of the parameter values such that the corresponding Kahan map is integrable, in particular, admits an…
Kahan discretization is applicable to any system of ordinary differential equations on $\mathbb R^n$ with a quadratic vector field, $\dot{x}=f(x)=Q(x)+Bx+c$, and produces a birational map $x\mapsto \widetilde{x}$ according to the formula…
We show that some hard to detect properties of quadratic ODEs (eg certain preserved integrals and measures) can be deduced more or less algorithmically from their Kahan discretization, using Darboux Polynomials (DPs). Somewhat similar…
The main result of this paper is the discretization of Hamiltonian systems of the form $\ddot x = -K \nabla W(x)$, where $K$ is a constant symmetric matrix and $W\colon\mathbb{R}^n\to \mathbb{R}$ is a polynomial of degree $d\le 4$ in any…
The numerical method of Kahan applied to quadratic differential equations is known to often generate integrable maps in low dimensions and can in more general situations exhibit preserved measures and integrals. Computerized methods based…
We give a systematic method for discretizing Hamiltonian partial differential equations (PDEs) with constant symplectic structure, while preserving their energy exactly. The same method, applied to PDEs with constant dissipative structure,…
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…
Compatible discretizations, such as finite element exterior calculus, provide a discretization framework that respect the cohomological structure of the de Rham complex, which can be used to systematically construct stable mixed finite…
We consider certain types of discretization schemes for differential equations with quadratic nonlinearities, which were introduced by Kahan, and considered in a broader setting by Mickens. These methods have the property that they preserve…
We show how to construct in an elementary way the invariant of the KHK discretisation of a cubic Hamiltonian system in two dimensions. That is, we show that this invariant is expressible as the product of the ratios of affine polynomials…