Hamiltonian-preserving schemes for the Liouville equation with discontinuous potentials (Q2493361)

The authors propose two classes for Hamiltonian preserving schemes for Liouville equation with a discontinues potential. They introduce a selection criterion for a unique, physically relevant solution to the underlying linear hyperbolic equation with singular coefficients. These schemes have CFL condition, which is significant improvement over a conventional discretization. These schemes are proved to be positive, and stable in both \(\lambda^{\infty}\) and \(l'\) norms. There are a number of numerical experiments which illustrate the theory.