Conserved quantities of some Hamiltonian wave equations after full discretization (Q2491152)

The importance of time integrators which conserve invariants of Hamiltonian partial differential equations in order to achieve an efficient integration for long times is well known. This paper concentrates on the nonlinear wave and Schrödinger equations. Under hypotheses of regularity and periodicity, the author analyzes how a symmetric space discretization makes that the space discretized system also has certain invariants or `nearly' invariants which well approximate the continuous ones. Also, some facts are conjectured which would explain the good numerical approximation of them after time integration when using symplectic Runge-Kutta methods or symmetric linear multistep methods for second-order systems.