Regularizing time transformations in symplectic and composite integration

DOI10.1023/A:1015248903174MaRDI QIDQ1610307zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Seppo Mikkola, Paul Wiegert

Publication date 19 August 2002

Published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1015248903174

zbMATH Keywords

extended phase spaceperturbed Kepler problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10) Computational methods for problems pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-08) Three-body problems (70F07) Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H15)

Review text

It is well-known that symplectic integrators require constant time steps. This restriction can be overcome by using an extended phase space where the time is an additional dynamical variable (with an associated momentum), and by performing there a suitable canonical transformation. The authors study generalisations of some known transformations and apply them to perturbed Kepler problems. Using suitable decompositions of the Hamiltonian, they derive explicit methods with a physical time step that adjusts to both the central and perturbing potential. Numerical results are presented for some simple test problems.

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