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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…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Beibei Zhu , Ruili Zhang , Yifa Tang , Xiongbiao Tu

The existence of explicit symplectic integrators for general nonseparable Hamiltonian systems is an open and important problem in both numerical analysis and computing in science and engineering, as explicit integrators are usually more…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Lijie Mei , Xinyuan Wu , Yaolin Jiang

Symplectic integrators offer vastly superior performance over traditional numerical techniques for conservative dynamical systems, but their application to \emph{dissipative} systems is inherently difficult due to dissipative systems' lack…

In order to perform numerical studies of long-term stability in nonlinear Hamiltonian systems, one needs a numerical integration algorithm which is symplectic. Further, this algorithm should be fast and accurate. In this paper, we propose…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 Govindan Rangarajan

In this paper an approach is outlined. With this approach some explicit algorithms can be applied to solve the initial value problem of $n-$dimensional damped oscillators. This approach is based upon following structure: for any…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-09 Tianshu Luo , Yimu Guo

Symplectic integrators that preserve the geometric structure of Hamiltonian flows and do not exhibit secular growth in energy errors are suitable for the long-term integration of N-body Hamiltonian systems in the solar system. However, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-02 Ying Wang , Wei Sun , Fuyao Liu , Xin Wu

Symplectic integrators with long-term preservation of integrals of motion are introduced for the guiding-center model of plasma particles in toroidal magnetic fields of general topology. An efficient transformation to canonical coordinates…

Multisymplectic variational integrators are structure preserving numerical schemes especially designed for PDEs derived from covariant spacetime Hamilton principles. The goal of this paper is to study the properties of the temporal and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-18 François Demoures , François Gay-Balmaz , Tudor S. Ratiu

Variational integrators for Lagrangian dynamical systems provide a systematic way to derive geometric numerical methods. These methods preserve a discrete multisymplectic form as well as momenta associated to symmetries of the Lagrangian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Michael Kraus , Omar Maj

Predicting the behaviors of Hamiltonian systems has been drawing increasing attention in scientific machine learning. However, the vast majority of the literature was focused on predicting separable Hamiltonian systems with their kinematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Shiying Xiong , Yunjin Tong , Xingzhe He , Shuqi Yang , Cheng Yang , Bo Zhu

In this work, we present a symplectic integration scheme to numerically compute space debris motion. Such an integrator is particularly suitable to obtain reliable trajectories of objects lying on high orbits, especially geostationary ones.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ch. Hubaux , A. Lemaître , N. Delsate , T. Carletti

A variational formulation for non-equilibrium thermodynamics was developed by Gay-Balmaz and Yoshimura. In a recent article, the first two authors of the present paper introduced partially cosymplectic structures as a geometric framework…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Jaime Bajo , Manuel de León , Asier López-Gordón

Symplectic integrators offer many advantages for the numerical solution of Hamiltonian differential equations, including bounded energy error and the preservation of invariant sets. Two of the central Hamiltonian systems encountered in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 C. Leland Ellison , John M. Finn , Joshua W. Burby , Michael Kraus , Hong Qin , William M. Tang

Recently, our group developed explicit symplectic methods for curved spacetimes that are not split into several explicitly integrable parts, but are via appropriate time transformations. Such time-transformed explicit symplectic integrators…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-05 Xin Wu , Ying Wang , Wei Sun , Fuyao Liu , Dazhu Ma

Hamiltonian systems are differential equations which describe systems in classical mechanics, plasma physics, and sampling problems. They exhibit many structural properties, such as a lack of attractors and the presence of conservation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Christian Offen , Sina Ober-Blöbaum

It is well known that symplectic integrators lose their near energy preservation properties when variable step sizes are used. The most common approach to combine adaptive step sizes and symplectic integrators involves the Poincar\'e…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Valentin Duruisseaux , Jeremy Schmitt , Melvin Leok

The shearing sheet is a model dynamical system that is used to study the small-scale dynamics of astrophysical disks. Numerical simulations of particle trajectories in the shearing sheet usually employ the leapfrog integrator, but this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-17 Hanno Rein , Scott Tremaine

Hill's equations are an approximation that is useful in a number of areas of astrophysics including planetary rings and planetesimal disks. We derive a symplectic method for integrating Hill's equations based on a generalized leapfrog. This…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Quinn , R. P. Perrine , D. C. Richardson , R. Barnes

This paper describes a fourth-order integration algorithm for the gravitational N-body problem based on discrete Lagrangian mechanics. When used with shared timesteps, the algorithm is momentum conserving and symplectic. We generalize the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Will M. Farr , Edmund Bertschinger

We study the optimal design of numerical integrators for dissipative systems, for which there exists an underlying thermodynamic structure known as GENERIC (general equation for the nonequilibrium reversible-irreversible coupling). We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-14 Xiaocheng Shang , Hans Christian Öttinger