Preservation of bifurcations of Hamiltonian boundary value problems under discretisation

DOI10.1007/S10208-020-09454-ZzbMATH Open1455.65114arXiv1804.07468OpenAlexW3104907055MaRDI QIDQ827002FDOQ827002

Authors: Christian Offen, Robert I. McLachlan 

Publication date: 6 January 2021

Published in: Foundations of Computational Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that symplectic integrators preserve bifurcations of Hamiltonian boundary value problems and that nonsymplectic integrators do not. We provide a universal description of the breaking of umbilic bifurcations by nonysmplectic integrators. We discover extra structure induced from certain types of boundary value problems, including classical Dirichlet problems, that is useful to locate bifurcations. Geodesics connecting two points are an example of a Hamiltonian boundary value problem, and we introduce the jet-RATTLE method, a symplectic integrator that easily computes geodesics and their bifurcations. Finally, we study the periodic pitchfork bifurcation, a codimension-1 bifurcation arising in integrable Hamiltonian systems. It is not preserved by either symplectic on nonsymplectic integrators, but in some circumstances symplecticity greatly reduces the error.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07468

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zbMATH Keywords

bifurcationsgeometric integrationsingularity theorycatastrophe theorygeodesic bifurcationsHamiltonian boundary value problemsperiodic pitchfork

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical solution of boundary value problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L10) Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10) Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems (37M15) Numerical bifurcation problems (65P30)

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