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We present a novel structure-preserving framework for solving the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system of equations using a particle in cell (PIC) discretization combined with discrete gradient time integrators. The Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system is…

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This work introduces a port-Hamiltonian (PH) model for constrained mechanical systems, which is directly derived from the Lagrangian equations of motion. The present PH framework incorporates a singularity-free director representation of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Lisa Latussek , Philipp L. Kinon , Peter Betsch

The time dependent-integrals of motion, linear in position and momentum operators, of a quantum system are extracted from Noether's theorem prescription by means of special time-dependent variations of coordinates. For the stationary case…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 O. Castaños , R. López-Peña , V. I. Man'ko

We establish the Lagrangian nature of the discrete isospectral and isomonodromic dynamical systems corresponding to the re-factorization transformations of the rational matrix functions on the Riemann sphere. Specifically, in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-14 Anton Dzhamay

We thoroughly investigate Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) discretizations as time integrators for second-order oscillatory systems, considering both second-order and first-order formulations of the original problem. Key contributions include…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Gabriele Ciaramella , Martin J. Gander , Ilario Mazzieri

Geometric integrators of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation conserve exactly many invariants of the exact solution. Among these integrators, the split-operator algorithm is explicit and easy to implement, but, unfortunately, is restricted to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Seonghoon Choi , Jiří Vaníček

We present a consistent high-order staggered Lagrangian hydrodynamics framework designed to reconcile an underlying disparity in existing curvilinear formulations: the mismatch between quadrature-based "strong" mass conservation and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Zhiyuan Sun , Jun Liu , Pei Wang

We have introduced self-consistent spin, tidal and dynamical equations of motion into REBOUNDx, a library of additional effects for the popular N-body integrator REBOUND. The equations of motion used are derived from the constant time lag…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Tiger Lu , Hanno Rein , Daniel Tamayo , Sam Hadden , Rosemary Mardling , Sarah C. Millholland , Gregory Laughlin

This paper addresses the problem of efficiently computing higher-order variational integrators in simulation and trajectory optimization of mechanical systems as those often found in robotic applications. We develop $O(n)$ algorithms to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Taosha Fan , Jarvis Schultz , Todd Murphey

In this paper, we formulate and analyse exponential integrations when applied to nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations in a normal or highly oscillatory regime. A kind of exponential integrators with energy preservation, optimal convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Bin Wang , Yaolin Jiang

We study the Lagrange formalism of the (rational) Ruijsenaars-Schneider (RS) system, both in discrete time as well as in continuous time, as a further example of a Lagrange 1-form structure in the sense of the recent paper [24]. The…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2013-06-26 Sikarin Yoo-Kong , Frank Nijhoff

We deal with direct and inverse problems of the calculus of variations on arbitrary time scales. Firstly, using the Euler-Lagrange equation and the strengthened Legendre condition, we give a general form for a variational functional to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Monika Dryl , Delfim F. M. Torres

We develop a geometric version of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations for discrete mechanics and constrained discrete mechanics. The geometric approach consists of using suitable Lagrangian and isotropic submanifolds. We also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-09 María Barbero-Liñán , Marta Farré Puiggalí , Sebastián Ferraro , David Martín de Diego

When simulating molecular systems using deterministic equations of motion (e.g., Newtonian dynamics), such equations are generally numerically integrated according to a well-developed set of algorithms that share commonly agreed-upon…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 David A. Sivak , John D. Chodera , Gavin E. Crooks

We present a variational integrator based on the Lobatto quadrature for the time integration of dynamical systems issued from the least action principle. This numerical method uses a cubic interpolation of the states and the action is…

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We present a combination of tools which allows for investigation of the coupled orbital and rotational dynamics of two rigid bodies with nearly arbitrary shape and mass distribution, under the influence of their mutual gravitational…

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The explicit integrability of second order ordinary differential equations invariant under time-translation and rescaling is investigated. Quadratic systems generated from the linearisable version of this class of equations are analysed to…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Leach , Spiros Cotsakis , George Flessas

We review the implementation of individual particle time-stepping for N-body dynamics. We present a class of integrators derived from second order Hamiltonian splitting. In contrast to the usual implementation of individual time-stepping,…

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It is well known that the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian descriptions of field theories are equivalent at the discrete time level when variational integrators are used. Besides the symplectic Hamiltonian structure, many physical systems exhibit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Andrea Brugnoli , Volker Mehrmann

This article is concerned with a new filtered two-step variational integrator for solving the charged-particle dynamics in a mildly non-uniform moderate or strong magnetic field with a dimensionless parameter $\varepsilon$ inversely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Ting Li , Bin Wang