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The Magnus expansion and some of its applications
Approximate resolution of linear systems of differential equations with
varying coefficients is a recurrent problem shared by a number of scientific
and engineering areas, ranging from Quantum Mechanics to Control Theory. When
formulated in operator or matrix form, the Magnus expansion furnishes an
elegant setting to built up approximate exponential representations of the
solution of the system. It provides a power series expansion for the
corresponding exponent and is sometimes referred to as Time-Dependent
Exponential Perturbation Theory. Every Magnus approximant corresponds in
Perturbation Theory to a partial re-summation of infinite terms with the
important additional property of preserving at any order certain symmetries of
the exact solution. The goal of this review is threefold. First, to collect a
number of developments scattered through half a century of scientific
literature on Magnus expansion. They concern the methods for the generation of
terms in the expansion, estimates of the radius of convergence of the series,
generalizations and related non-perturbative expansions. Second, to provide a
bridge with its implementation as generator of especial purpose numerical
integration methods, a field of intense activity during the last decade. Third,
to illustrate with examples the kind of results one can expect from Magnus
expansion in comparison with those from both perturbative schemes and standard
numerical integrators. We buttress this issue with a revision of the wide range
of physical applications found by Magnus expansion in the literature.Comment: Report on the Magnus expansion for differential equations and its
applications to several physical problem
Using Conservation Laws to Solve Toda Field Theories
We investigate the question of how the knowledge of sufficiently many local
conservation laws for a model can be utilized to solve the model. We show that
for models where the conservation laws can be written in one-sided forms, like
\barpartial Q_s = 0, the problem can always be reduced to solving a closed
system of ordinary differential equations. We investigate the , , and
Toda field theories in considerable detail from this viewpoint. One of
our findings is that there is in each case a transformation group intrinsic to
the model. This group is built on a specific real form of the Lie algebra used
to label the Toda field theory. It is the group of field transformations which
leaves the conserved densities invariant.Comment: Latex, 24 page
Peer Methods for the Solution of Large-Scale Differential Matrix Equations
We consider the application of implicit and linearly implicit
(Rosenbrock-type) peer methods to matrix-valued ordinary differential
equations. In particular the differential Riccati equation (DRE) is
investigated. For the Rosenbrock-type schemes, a reformulation capable of
avoiding a number of Jacobian applications is developed that, in the autonomous
case, reduces the computational complexity of the algorithms. Dealing with
large-scale problems, an efficient implementation based on low-rank symmetric
indefinite factorizations is presented. The performance of both peer approaches
up to order 4 is compared to existing implicit time integration schemes for
matrix-valued differential equations.Comment: 29 pages, 2 figures (including 6 subfigures each), 3 tables,
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An introduction to Lie group integrators -- basics, new developments and applications
We give a short and elementary introduction to Lie group methods. A selection
of applications of Lie group integrators are discussed. Finally, a family of
symplectic integrators on cotangent bundles of Lie groups is presented and the
notion of discrete gradient methods is generalised to Lie groups
Symmetric spaces and Lie triple systems in numerical analysis of differential equations
A remarkable number of different numerical algorithms can be understood and
analyzed using the concepts of symmetric spaces and Lie triple systems, which
are well known in differential geometry from the study of spaces of constant
curvature and their tangents. This theory can be used to unify a range of
different topics, such as polar-type matrix decompositions, splitting methods
for computation of the matrix exponential, composition of selfadjoint numerical
integrators and dynamical systems with symmetries and reversing symmetries. The
thread of this paper is the following: involutive automorphisms on groups
induce a factorization at a group level, and a splitting at the algebra level.
In this paper we will give an introduction to the mathematical theory behind
these constructions, and review recent results. Furthermore, we present a new
Yoshida-like technique, for self-adjoint numerical schemes, that allows to
increase the order of preservation of symmetries by two units. Since all the
time-steps are positive, the technique is particularly suited to stiff
problems, where a negative time-step can cause instabilities
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