Modified equations for variational integrators applied to Lagrangians linear in velocities

DOI10.3934/JGM.2019001MaRDI QIDQ2329700zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mats Vermeeren

Publication date 18 October 2019

Published in Journal of Geometric Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09567

zbMATH Keywords

degenerate Lagrangiansmodified equationsparasitic oscillationsvariational integrators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems (37M15) Multistep, Runge-Kutta and extrapolation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L06) Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10) Lagrange's equations (70H03)

Abstract: Variational integrators applied to degenerate Lagrangians that are linear in the velocities are two-step methods. The system of modified equations for a two-step method consists of the principal modified equation and one additional equation describing parasitic oscillations. We observe that a Lagrangian for the principal modified equation can be constructed using the same technique as in the case of non-degenerate Lagrangians. Furthermore, we construct the full system of modified equations by doubling the dimension of the discrete system in such a way that the principal modified equation of the extended system coincides with the full system of modified equations of the original system. We show that the extended discrete system is Lagrangian, which leads to a construction of a Lagrangian for the full system of modified equations.

Review text

Modified equations of symmetric two-step variational integrators, implicit-mid point rules, and trapezoidal rules, are here constructed for a degenerate continuous Lagrangian that is linear in the velocities. The dynamics of point vortices in the plane and the nonlinear Schrödinger equation whose kinetic term is linear in the time-derivatives are well-known examples of degenerate Lagrangians. The construction of modified Lagrangians for variational integrators is based on the author's earlier work [Numer. Math. 137, No. 4, 1001--1037 (2017; Zbl 1378.65185)] by adapting the procedure for non-degenerate Lagrangians. In the case of degenerate Lagrangians, the dimension of the full discrete system of modified equations is doubled. The system of modified equations consists of the principal modified equation and one additional equation describing parasitic oscillations. Numerical examples on the pendulum equation and point vertices in the plane show that the trapezoidal rule exhibit parasitic oscillations, whereas the mid-point rule, does not, as expected from the variational equations.

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