A minimal-variable symplectic integrator on spheres
A minimal-variable symplectic integrator on spheres
复制标题
球面上的最小变辛积分器
DOI:
10.1090/mcom/3153
复制
发表时间:
2014
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Olivier Verdier
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
R. McLachlan;K. Modin;Olivier Verdier
We construct a symplectic, globally defined, minimal-variable, equivariant integrator on products of 2-spheres. Examples of corresponding Hamiltonian systems, called spin systems, include the reduced free rigid body, the motion of point vortices on a sphere, and the classical Heisenberg spin chain, a spatial discretisation of the Landau-Lifshitz equation. The existence of such an integrator is remarkable, as the sphere is neither a vector space, nor a cotangent bundle, has no global coordinate chart, and its symplectic form is not even exact. Moreover, the formulation of the integrator is very simple, and resembles the geodesic midpoint method, although the latter is not symplectic.