A symmetry and Noether charge preserving discretization of initial value problems

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2023.112652MaRDI QIDQ6147005zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alexander Rothkopf, Jan Nordström

Publication date 31 January 2024

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04490

zbMATH Keywords

adaptive mesh refinementconserved Noether chargeinitial value problemsummation by partstime-translation invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial-boundary value problems (65Mxx) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76Mxx) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81Txx)

Abstract: Taking insight from the theory of general relativity, where space and time are treated on the same footing, we develop a novel geometric variational discretization for second order initial value problems (IVPs). By discretizing the dynamics along a world-line parameter, instead of physical time directly, we retain manifest translation symmetry and conservation of the associated continuum Noether charge. A non-equidistant time discretization emerges dynamically, realizing a form of automatic adaptive mesh refinement (AMR), guided by the system symmetries. Using appropriately regularized summation by parts finite difference operators, the continuum Noether charge, defined via the Killing vector associated with translation symmetry, is shown to be exactly preserved in the interior of the simulated time interval. The convergence properties of the approach are demonstrated with two explicit examples.

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