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This paper is devoted to the study of symplectic manifolds and their connection with Hamiltonian dynamical systems. We review some properties and operations on these manifolds and see how they intervene when studying the complete…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-03 A. Lesfari

Symplectic integrators evolve dynamical systems according to modified Hamiltonians whose error terms are also well-defined Hamiltonians. The error of the algorithm is the sum of each error Hamiltonian's perturbation on the exact solution.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Siu A. Chin

A new method is proposed for integrating the equations of motion of an elastic filament. In the standard finite-difference and finite-element formulations the continuum equations of motion are discretized in space and time, but it is then…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anthony JC Ladd , Gaurav Misra

We present a set of new, efficient high-order symplectic methods designed for Hamiltonian systems with cubic or quartic potentials. By demonstrating that polynomial potentials require fewer order conditions, we develop schemes that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Alejandro Escorihuela-Tomàs

The Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm is adapted to the simulation of a system of classical degrees of freedom coupled to non self-interacting lattices fermions. The diagonalization of the Hamiltonian matrix is avoided by introducing a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. L. Alonso , L. A. Fernandez , F. Guinea , V. Laliena , V. Martin-Mayor

Explicit symplectic integrators have been important tools for accurate and efficient approximations of mechanical systems with separable Hamiltonians. For the first time, the article proposes for arbitrary Hamiltonians similar integrators,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Molei Tao

Multi-derivative one-step methods based upon Euler-Maclaurin integration formulae are considered for the solution of canonical Hamiltonian dynamical systems. Despite the negative result that simplecticity may not be attained by any…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-08 F. Iavernaro , F. Mazzia , M. S. Mukhametzhanov , Ya. D. Sergeyev

Context. Integrating the motion of stars in a smoothed potential is necessary in many stellar and galactic studies. Previous works have often used numerical integrators that alternate between linear drifts and velocity kicks (such as the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-22 Alexandre Bougakov , Melaine Saillenfest , Marc Fouchard

This article considers non-relativistic charged particle dynamics in both static and non-static electromagnetic fields, which are governed by nonseparable, possibly time-dependent Hamiltonians. For the first time, explicit symplectic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Molei Tao

We present implementations of a fourth-order symplectic integrator on graphic processing units for three $N$-body models with long-range interactions of general interest: the Hamiltonian Mean Field, Ring and two-dimensional self-gravitating…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 Tarcísio M. Rocha Filho

In the last two decades, significant effort has been put in understanding and designing so-called structure-preserving numerical methods for the simulation of mechanical systems. Geometric integrators attempt to preserve the geometry…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-26 David Martín de Diego , Rodrigo T. Sato Martín de Almagro

The symplectic Wisdom-Holman map revolutionized long-term integrations of planetary systems. There is freedom in such methods of how to split the Hamiltonian and which coordinate system to employ, and several options have been proposed in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-27 David M. Hernandez , Walter Dehnen

We introduce a novel numerical method to integrate partial differential equations representing the Hamiltonian dynamics of field theories. It is a multi-symplectic integrator that locally conserves the stress-energy tensor with an excellent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-23 Hugo Ricateau , Leticia F. Cugliandolo

Symplectic integrators are widely used for long-term integration of conservative astrophysical problems due to their ability to preserve the constants of motion; however, they cannot in general be applied in the presence of nonconservative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-10 David Tsang , Chad R. Galley , Leo C. Stein , Alec Turner

We present a non-canonically symplectic integration scheme tailored to numerically computing the post-Newtonian motion of a spinning black-hole binary. Using a splitting approach we combine the flows of orbital and spin contributions. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-25 Christian Lubich , Benny Walther , Bernd Bruegmann

We present a practical strategy to optimize a set of Hybrid Monte Carlo parameters in simulations of QCD and QCD-like theories. We specialize to the case of mass-preconditioning, with multiple time-step Omelyan integrators. Starting from…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-10-11 Andrea Bussone , Michele Della Morte , Vincent Drach , Martin Hansen , Ari Hietanen , Jarno Rantaharju , Claudio Pica

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

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…

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

We have proposed new algorithms for the numerical integration of the equations of motion for classical spin systems. In close analogy to symplectic integrators for Hamiltonian equations of motion used in Molecular Dynamics these algorithms…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Krech , Alex Bunker , D. P. Landau