A note on symplecticity of step-transition mappings for multi-step methods

  • Authors:
  • Gui-Dong Dai;Yi-Fa Tang

  • Affiliations:
  • LSEC, ICMSEC, Academy of Mathematics & Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China and Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China;LSEC, ICMSEC, Academy of Mathematics & Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We prove that for a linear multi-step method Σk=0mαk Zk =τ Σk=0mβk f(Zk), even though the mappings Z0 → Z1,...,Zm-2 → Zm-1 are chosen to be symplectic, Zm-1 → Zm will be non-symplectic. Similarly, there is an interesting result for a sort of general linear methods.