Symmetric multistep methods for charged-particle dynamics
The SMAI journal of computational mathematics, Volume 3 (2017) , pp. 205-218.

A class of explicit symmetric multistep methods is proposed for integrating the equations of motion of charged particles in an electro-magnetic field. The magnetic forces are built into these methods in a special way that respects the Lagrangian structure of the problem. It is shown that such methods approximately preserve energy and momentum over very long times, proportional to a high power of the inverse stepsize. We explain this behaviour by studying the modified differential equation of the methods and by analysing the remarkably stable propagation of parasitic solution components.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5802/smai-jcm.25
Classification: 65L06,  65P10,  78A35,  78M25
Keywords: linear multistep method, charged particle, magnetic field, energy conservation, backward error analysis, modified differential equation, modulated Fourier expansion
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Ernst Hairer; Christian Lubich. Symmetric multistep methods for charged-particle dynamics. The SMAI journal of computational mathematics, Volume 3 (2017) , pp. 205-218. doi : 10.5802/smai-jcm.25. https://smai-jcm.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/smai-jcm.25/

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