A symplectic approximation with nonlinear stability and convergence analysis for efficiently solving semi-linear Klein-Gordon equations (Q2311786)

The paper develops a symplectic approximation for efficiently solving semilinear Klein-Gordon equations. To this end, the authors first reformulate the original equation as an abstract Hamiltonian system, and analyze an extended Runge-Kutta-Nystrom-type approximation based on the operator variation-of-constants formula. Then, they present the symplectic conditions for the approximation, and derive some practical symplectic approximation schemes for semilinear Klein-Gordon equations. More importantly, the nonlinear stability and convergence analysis are conducted for the symplectic approximations. At last, various numerical experiments are presented to verify the effectiveness of the symplectic approximation.