Local Energy Conservation Law for Spatially-Discretized Hamiltonian Vlasov-Maxwell System

Abstract

Structure-preserving geometric algorithm for the Vlasov-Maxwell (VM) equations is currently an active research topic. We show that spatially-discretized Hamiltonian systems for the VM equations admit a local energy conservation law in space-time. This is accomplished by proving that for a general spatially-discretized system, a global conservation law always implies a discrete local conservation law in space-time when the algorithm is local. This general result demonstrates that Hamiltonian discretizations can preserve local conservation laws, in addition to the symplectic structure, both of which are the intrinsic physical properties of infinite dimensional Hamiltonian systems in physics.

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