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Solving quaternion kinematical differential equations is one of the most significant problems in the automation, navigation, aerospace and aeronautics literatures. Most existing approaches for this problem neither preserve the norm of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Hong-Yan Zhang , Lu-Sha Zhou , Zi-Hao Wang , Long Ma , Yi-Fan Niu

Symplectic integration methods based on operator splitting are well established in many branches of science. For Hamiltonian systems which split in more than two parts, symplectic methods of higher order have been studied in detail only for…

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

We provide new existence and uniqueness results for the discrete-time Hamilton (DTH) equations of a symplectic-energy-momentum (SEM) integrator. In particular, we identify points in extended-phase space where the DTH equations of SEM…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yosi Shibberu

Recently, a whole class of evergy-preserving integrators has been derived for the numerical solution of Hamiltonian problems. In the mainstream of this research, we have defined a new family of symplectic integrators depending on a real…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-30 Luigi Brugnano , Felice Iavernaro , Donato Trigiante

Hamilton's equations are fundamental for modeling complex physical systems, where preserving key properties such as energy and momentum is crucial for reliable long-term simulations. Geometric integrators are widely used for this purpose,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Priscilla Canizares , Davide Murari , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ferdia Sherry , Zakhar Shumaylov

Geometric numerical integration has recently been exploited to design symplectic accelerated optimization algorithms by simulating the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems from the variational framework introduced in Wibisono et al. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Valentin Duruisseaux , Melvin Leok

We introduce a recent symplectic integration scheme derived for solving physically motivated systems with non-separable Hamiltonians. We show its relevance to Riemannian manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (RMHMC) and provide an alternative to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-15 Adam D. Cobb , Atılım Güneş Baydin , Andrew Markham , Stephen J. Roberts

We show that when time-reversible symplectic algorithms are used to solve periodic motions, the energy error after one period is generally two orders higher than that of the algorithm. By use of correctable algorithms, we show that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. R. Scuro , S. A. Chin

Numerical methods that preserve geometric invariants of the system, such as energy, momentum or the symplectic form, are called geometric integrators. In this paper we present a method to construct symplectic-momentum integrators for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Leonardo Colombo , Sebastián Ferraro , David Martín de Diego

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

We show that symplectic Runge-Kutta methods provide effective symplectic integrators for Hamiltonian systems with index one constraints. These include the Hamiltonian description of variational problems subject to position and velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-28 Robert I McLachlan , Klas Modin , Olivier Verdier , Matt Wilkins

In this work, a kernel-based surrogate for integrating Hamiltonian dynamics that is symplectic by construction and tailored to large prediction horizons is proposed. The method learns a scalar potential whose gradient enters a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Robin Herkert , Tobias Ehring , Bernard Haasdonk

We give a detailed study of the symplectic geometry of a family of integrable systems obtained by coupling two angular momenta in a non trivial way. These systems depend on a parameter t $\in$ [0, 1] and exhibit different behaviors…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Yohann Le Floch , Álvaro Pelayo

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

Dynamic simulation of elastic bodies is a longstanding task in engineering and computer graphics. In graphics, numerical integrators like implicit Euler and BDF2 are preferred due to their stability at large time steps, but they tend to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Kevin You , Juntian Zheng , Minchen Li

Many applications in computational physics that use numerical integrators based on splitting and composition can benefit from the development of optimized algorithms and from choosing the best ordering of terms. The cost in programming and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Robert I McLachlan

The evolution of any factorized time-reversible symplectic integrators, when applied to the harmonic oscillator, can be exactly solved in a closed form. The resulting modified Hamiltonians demonstrate the convergence of the Lie series…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Siu A. Chin , Sante R. Scuro

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

We propose to use the properties of the Lie algebra of the angular momentum to build symplectic integrators dedicated to the Hamiltonian of the free rigid body. By introducing a dependence of the coefficients of integrators on the moments…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 J. Laskar , T. Vaillant