Conservation of energy, momentum and actions in numerical discretizations of non-linear wave equations (Q943369)

The authors show that for classes of symplectic and symmetric time-stepping methods -- trigonometric integrators and the Störmer-Verlet or leapfrog method -- applied to spectral semi-discretizations of semilinear wave equations in a weakly non-linear setting, the energy, momentum, and all harmonic actions are approximately preserved over long times. For the case of interest where the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) number is not a small parameter, such results are outside the reach of standard backward error analysis. In this work, they are instead obtained via a modulated Fourier expansion in time.