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Since their introduction, Lie group integrators have become a method of choice in many application areas. Various formulations of these integrators exist, and in this work we focus on Runge--Kutta--Munthe--Kaas methods. First, we briefly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Elena Celledoni , Ergys Çokaj , Andrea Leone , Davide Murari , Brynjulf Owren

In this survey we discuss a wide variety of aspects related to Lie group integrators. These numerical integration schemes for differential equations on manifolds have been studied in a general and systematic manner since the 1990s and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Brynjulf Owren

We give a short and elementary introduction to Lie group methods. A selection of applications of Lie group integrators are discussed. Finally, a family of symplectic integrators on cotangent bundles of Lie groups is presented and the notion…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-22 Elena Celledoni , Håkon Marthinsen , Brynjulf Owren

Differential equations posed on quadratic matrix Lie groups arise in the context of classical mechanics and quantum dynamical systems. Lie group numerical integrators preserve the constants of motions defining the Lie group. Thus, they…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Sofya Maslovskaya , Christian Offen , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Pranav Singh , Boris Wembe

We develop the equations of motion for full body models that describe the dynamics of rigid bodies, acting under their mutual gravity. The equations are derived using a variational approach where variations are defined on the Lie group of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Taeyoung Lee , Melvin Leok , N. Harris McClamroch

In this paper structure-preserving time-integrators for rigid body-type mechanical systems are derived from a discrete Hamilton-Pontryagin variational principle. From this principle one can derive a novel class of variational partitioned…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-01-08 Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Jerrold E. Marsden

This paper develops a structure-preserving numerical integration scheme for a class of higher-order mechanical systems. The dynamics of these systems are governed by invariant variational principles defined on higher-order tangent bundles…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-10-11 Christopher L. Burnett , Darryl D. Holm , David M. Meier

Retraction maps are known to be the seed for all numerical integrators. These retraction maps-based integrators can be further lifted to tangent and cotangent bundles, giving rise to structure-preserving integrators for mechanical systems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Viyom Vivek , David Martin de Diego , Ravi N Banavar

We develop Lie-Poisson integrators for general Hamiltonian systems on $\mathbf{R}^{3}$ equipped with the rigid body bracket. The method uses symplectic realisation of $\mathbf{R}^{3}$ on $T^{*}\mathbf{R}^{2}$ and application of symplectic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Robert McLachlan , Klas Modin , Olivier Verdier

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

We construct symplectic integrators for Lie-Poisson systems. The integrators are standard symplectic (partitioned) Runge--Kutta methods. Their phase space is a symplectic vector space with a Hamiltonian action with momentum map $J$ whose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Robert I McLachlan , Klas Modin , Olivier Verdier

We present Lie group integrators for nonlinear stochastic differential equations with non-commutative vector fields whose solution evolves on a smooth finite dimensional manifold. Given a Lie group action that generates transport along the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-10-16 Simon J. A. Malham , Anke Wiese

We present a new class of high-order variational integrators on Lie groups. We show that these integrators are symplectic, momentum preserving, and can be constructed to be of arbitrarily high-order, or can be made to converge…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-17 James Hall , Melvin Leok

Rigid body dynamics on the rotation group have typically been represented in terms of rotation matrices, unit quaternions, or local coordinates, such as Euler angles. Due to the coordinate singularities associated with local coordinate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-15 Xuefeng Shen , Melvin Leok

We propose a geometric integrator to numerically approximate the flow of Lie systems. The key is a novel procedure that integrates the Lie system on a Lie group intrinsically associated with a Lie system on a general manifold via a Lie…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-18 L. Blanco , F. Jiménez Alburquerque , J. de Lucas , C. Sardón

A Lie system is a non-autonomous system of first-order ordinary differential equations whose general solution can be written via an autonomous function, a so-called (nonlinear) superposition rule of a finite number of particular solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-23 L. Blanco , F. Jiménez , J. de Lucas , C. Sardón

We present a general framework for constructing structure-preserving numerical integrators for nonholonomically constrained mechanical systems evolving on Lie groups using retraction maps. Retraction maps generalize the exponential map and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Viyom Vivek , David Martin de Diego , Ravi N. Banavar

We develop a geometric framework for the numerical integration of mechanical systems evolving on manifolds. After briefly reviewing classical numerical methods and highlighting their limitations and shortcomings in non-flat (non-Euclidean)…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Viyom Vivek , David Martin de Diego , Ravi N. Banavar

In this paper, high-order numerical integrators on homogeneous spaces will be presented as an application of nonholonomic partitioned Runge-Kutta Munthe-Kaas (RKMK) methods on Lie groups. A homogeneous space $M$ is a manifold where a group…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Rodrigo T. Sato Martín de Almagro

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
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