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The reproducibility of experiments is one of the main principles of the scientific method. However, numerical N-body experiments, especially those of planetary systems, are currently not reproducible. In the most optimistic scenario, they…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-26 Hanno Rein , Daniel Tamayo

Space-time symmetries are a crucial ingredient of any theoretical model in physics. Unlike internal symmetries, which may or may not be gauged and/or spontaneously broken, space-time symmetries do not admit any ambiguity: they are gauged by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Luca V. Delacretaz , Solomon Endlich , Alexander Monin , Riccardo Penco , Francesco Riva

This manuscript is the first in a series of instalments that investigate spherically symmetric solutions within the effective dynamics program of Loop Quantum Gravity. The choice of lattice is adapted such that it remains invariant under a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-27 Klaus Liegener , Saeed Rastgoo , Jorden Roberts

Two specialized algorithms for the numerical integration of the equations of motion of a Brownian walker obeying detailed balance are introduced. The algorithms become symplectic in the appropriate limits, and reproduce the equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 R Mannella

The Boris algorithm for integrating charged particle trajectories in electric and magnetic fields is popular due to its simple implementation, rapid iteration, and observed long-term numerical fidelity. The underlying cause of this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-09-10 C. L. Ellison , J. W. Burby , H. Qin

Symplectic mappings are discrete-time analogs of Hamiltonian systems. They appear in many areas of physics, including, for example, accelerators, plasma, and fluids. Integrable mappings, a subclass of symplectic mappings, are equivalent to…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-04-12 Timofey Zolkin , Sergei Nagaitsev , Viatcheslav Danilov

A symplectic integrator algorithm suitable for hierarchical triple systems is formulated and tested. The positions of the stars are followed in hierarchical Jacobi coordinates, whilst the planets are referenced purely to their primary. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. E. Verrier , N. W. Evans

In this work, we analyse static spherically symmetric solutions in the framework of mimetic gravity, an extension of general relativity where the conformal degree of freedom of gravity is isolated in a covariant fashion. Here we extend…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-13 Ratbay Myrzakulov , Lorenzo Sebastiani , Sunny Vagnozzi , Sergio Zerbini

A drift-kick-drift (DKD) type leapfrog symplectic integrator applied for a time-transformed separable Hamiltonian (or time-transformed symplectic integrator; TSI) has been known to conserve the Kepler orbit exactly. We find that for an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Long Wang , Keigo Nitadori

Integrals of the Liouville $1$-form, known as the first Poincar\'e integral invariant, provide a computable figure of merit for monitoring the conservation of symplecticity in the numerical integration of Hamiltonian systems. These…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 William Barham , J. W. Burby

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

We present a method for explicit leapfrog integration of inseparable Hamiltonian systems by means of an extended phase space. A suitably defined new Hamiltonian on the extended phase space leads to equations of motion that can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Pauli Pihajoki

Generalized Additive Runge-Kutta schemes have shown to be a suitable tool for solving ordinary differential equations with additively partitioned right-hand sides. This work develops symplectic GARK schemes for additively partitioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Michael Günther , Adrian Sandu , Kevin Schäfers , Antonella Zanna

The paper intends to lay out the first steps towards constructing a unified framework to understand the symplectic and spectral theory of finite dimensional integrable Hamiltonian systems. While it is difficult to know what the best…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Álvaro Pelayo , San Vũ Ngoc

In this work, we study cosmological and astrophysical applications of the recently proposed generalized hybrid metric-Palatini gravity theory, which combines features of both the metric and the Palatini approaches to the variational method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-20 João Luís Rosa

Many important physical systems can be described as the evolution of a Hamiltonian system, which has the important property of being conservative, that is, energy is conserved throughout the evolution. Physics Informed Neural Networks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Harsh Choudhary , Chandan Gupta , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Melvin Leok , Georgios Korpas

We present several methods, which utilize symplectic integration techniques based on two and three part operator splitting, for numerically solving the equations of motion of the disordered, discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger (DDNLS)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 Enrico Gerlach , Jan Meichsner , Charalampos Skokos

We consider here the dynamics of some homogeneous and isotropic cosmological models with $N$ interacting classical scalar fields non-minimally coupled to the spacetime curvature, as an attempt to generalize some recent results obtained for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Brenig , A. Figueiredo , E. Gunzig , T. M. Rocha Filho , Alberto Saa

Much of standard galaxy dynamics rests on the implicit assumption that the corresponding N-body problem is (near) integrable. This notion although leading to great simplification is by no means a fact. It is therefore important to develop…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Amr El-Zant

Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) is a framework to capture universal features of quantum many-body systems by viewing them as a boundary of topological order in one higher dimension. This has yielded numerous insights in static…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-04 Vedant Motamarri , Campbell McLauchlan , Benjamin Béri