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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 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

We compare the performances of symplectic and non-symplectic integrators for the computation of normal geodesics and conjugate points in sub-Riemannian geometry at the example of the Martinet case. For this case study we consider first the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Monique Chyba , Ernst Hairer , Gilles Vilmart

Variational integrators are derived for structure-preserving simulation of stochastic Hamiltonian systems with a certain type of multiplicative noise arising in geometric mechanics. The derivation is based on a stochastic discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Darryl D. Holm , Tomasz M. Tyranowski

By combining a standard symmetric, symplectic integrator with a new step size controller, we provide an integration scheme that is symmetric, reversible and conserves the values of the constants of motion. This new scheme is appropriate for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-07 Jonathan Seyrich , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos

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

The superiority of symplectic methods for stochastic Hamiltonian systems has been widely recognized, yet the probabilistic mechanism behind this superiority remains incompletely understood. This paper studies the superiority of symplectic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Jialin Hong , Ge Liang , Derui Sheng

The modeling and simulation of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems are central problems in mathematical physics and engineering, however they pose significant computational and structural challenges for standard data-driven…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Yeang Makara , Yusuke Tanaka , Takashi Matsubara , Takaharu Yaguchi

We study numerically classical 1-dimensional Hamiltonian lattices involving inter-particle long range interactions that decay with distance like 1/r^alpha, for alpha>=0. We demonstrate that although such systems are generally characterized…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-01 Helen Christodoulidi , Tassos Bountis , Lambros Drossos

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

The shearing sheet is a model dynamical system that is used to study the small-scale dynamics of astrophysical disks. Numerical simulations of particle trajectories in the shearing sheet usually employ the leapfrog integrator, but this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-17 Hanno Rein , Scott Tremaine

Symplectic integrators separate a problem into parts that can be solved in isolation, alternately advancing these sub-problems to approximate the evolution of the complete system. Problems with a single, dominant mass can use mixed-variable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 John E Chambers

We construct a symplectic integrator for non-separable Hamiltonian systems combining an extended phase space approach of Pihajoki and the symmetric projection method. The resulting method is semiexplicit in the sense that the main time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Buddhika Jayawardana , Tomoki Ohsawa

A variational framework for accelerated optimization was recently introduced on normed vector spaces and Riemannian manifolds in Wibisono et al. (2016) and Duruisseaux and Leok (2021). It was observed that a careful combination of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Valentin Duruisseaux , Melvin Leok

In this paper, an implicit nonsymplectic exact energy-preserving integrator is specifically designed for a ten-dimensional phase-space conservative Hamiltonian system with five degrees of freedom. It is based on a suitable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-16 Shiyang Hu , Xin Wu , Enwei Liang

Symplectic integrators are the preferred method of solving conservative $N$-body problems in cosmological, stellar cluster, and planetary system simulations because of their superior error properties and ability to compute orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 David M. Hernandez

The phase space of a Hamiltonian system is symplectic. However, the post-Newtonian Hamiltonian formulation of spinning compact binaries in existing publications does not have this property, when position, momentum and spin variables $[X, P,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Xin Wu , Yi Xie

We consider the numerical integration of the matrix Hill's equation. Parametric resonances can appear and this property is of great interest in many different physical applications. Usually, the Hill's equations originate from a Hamiltonian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Philipp Bader , Sergio Blanes , Enrique Ponsoda , Muaz Seydaoğlu

While symplectic integration methods based on operator splitting are well established in many branches of science, high order methods for Hamiltonian systems that split in more than two parts have not been studied in great detail. Here, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ch. Skokos , E. Gerlach , J. D. Bodyfelt , G. Papamikos , S. Eggl

By exploiting the error functions of explicit symplectic integrators for solving separable Hamiltonians, I show that it is possible to develop explicit, time-reversible symplectic integrators for solving non-separable Hamiltonians of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Siu A. Chin