Modified equations for variational integrators

DOI10.1007/S00211-017-0896-4MaRDI QIDQ1681795zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mats Vermeeren

Publication date 24 November 2017

Published in Numerische Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05411

zbMATH Keywords

modified Lagrangiansnumerical examplevariational integrators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems (37M15) Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10)

Abstract: It is well-known that if a symplectic integrator is applied to a Hamiltonian system, then the modified equation, whose solutions interpolate the numerical solutions, is again Hamiltonian. We investigate this property from the variational side. We present a technique to construct a Lagrangian for the modified equation from the discrete Lagrangian of a variational integrator.

Review text

The author develops a method to construct modified Lagrangians, starting from the discrete Lagrangian of the numerical method. These modified Lagrangians produce the modified equation up to an error of arbitrarily high order in the step size. The construction consists of several steps and requires the introduction of some analytic concepts such as meshed variational problems, where an extremizer is sought in a class of curves that may be nondifferentiable at some points, and \(k\)-critical families of curves, which are families of curves that almost extremize the action. Several examples are presented in order to support the efficiency of the method.

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