Lie group spectral variational integrators

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Abstract: We present a new class of high-order variational integrators on Lie groups. We show that these integrators are symplectic, momentum preserving, and can be constructed to be of arbitrarily high-order, or can be made to converge geometrically. Furthermore, these methods are stable and accurate for very large time steps. We demonstrate the construction of one such variational integrator for the rigid body, and discuss how this construction could be generalized to other related Lie group problems. We close with several numerical examples which demonstrate our claims, and discuss further extensions of our work.


The paper presents an extension of high-order Lie group integrators introduced in [\textit{J. Hall} and \textit{M. Leok}, Numer. Math. 130, No. 4, 681--740 (2015; Zbl 1359.37143)]. Such methods are of particular interest for applications in science and engineering, as they allow large time steps while yielding highly accurate approximations of the solution. The diffeomorphisms used for constructing the numerical schemes are expanded and convergence results are provided. The properties of both the discrete and continuous approximation are discussed. Some fundamentals of discrete mechanics are reviewed and general Galerkin variational integrators are constructed. The geometric high-order convergence of such integrators is analyzed. An example of an integrator based on the Cayley transform is also presented. Finally numerical examples, e.g., for a three-dimensional pendulum, are given to illustrate how the proposed methods behave in practice.



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