Symplectic integrators for index one constraints
Preprint, 2012

We show that symplectic Runge-Kutta methods provide effective symplectic integrators for Hamiltonian systems with index one constraints. These include the Hamiltonian description of variational problems subject to position and velocity constraints nondegenerate in the velocities, such as those arising in subRiemannian geometry.

Author

Klas Modin

University of Gothenburg

Chalmers, Mathematical Sciences, Mathematics

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Computational Mathematics

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10/7/2017