Multisymplectic geometry, variational integrators, and nonlinear PDEs

Details Multisymplectic geometry, variational integrators, and nonlinear PDEs Multisymplectic geometry, variational integrators, and nonlinear PDEs

1998-07-15

arxiv.org/abs/math/9807080v1

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

LaTeX2E, 52 pages, 11 figures, to appear in Comm. Math. Phys

Scientific paper

10.1007/s002200050505

This paper presents a geometric-variational approach to continuous and discrete mechanics and field theories. Using multisymplectic geometry, we show that the existence of the fundamental geometric structures as well as their preservation along solutions can be obtained directly from the variational principle. In particular, we prove that a unique multisymplectic structure is obtained by taking the derivative of an action function, and use this structure to prove covariant generalizations of conservation of symplecticity and Noether's theorem. Natural discretization schemes for PDEs, which have these important preservation properties, then follow by choosing a discrete action functional. In the case of mechanics, we recover the variational symplectic integrators of Veselov type, while for PDEs we obtain covariant spacetime integrators which conserve the corresponding discrete multisymplectic form as well as the discrete momentum mappings corresponding to symmetries. We show that the usual notion of symplecticity along an infinite-dimensional space of fields can be naturally obtained by making a spacetime split. All of the aspects of our method are demonstrated with a nonlinear sine-Gordon equation, including computational results and a comparison with other discretization schemes.

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