Retraction maps: a seed of geometric integrators
arXiv:2106.00607 · doi:10.1007/s10208-022-09571-x
Abstract
The classical notion of retraction map used to approximate geodesics is extended and rigorously defined to become a powerful tool to construct geometric integrators and it is called discretization map. Using the geometry of the tangent and cotangent bundles, we are able to tangently and cotangent lift such a map so that these lifts inherit the same properties as the original one and they continue to be discretization maps. In particular, the cotangent lift of a discretization map is a natural symplectomorphism, what plays a key role for constructing geometric integrators and symplectic methods. As a result, a wide range of (higer-order) numerical methods are recovered and canonically constructed by using different discretization maps, as well as some operations with Lagrangian submanifolds.
arXiv commentPaper accepted for publication in Found. Comput. Math. in Feb. 2022
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