How one can repair non-integrable Kahan discretizations


Abstract in English

Kahan discretization is applicable to any system of ordinary differential equations on $mathbb R^n$ with a quadratic vector field, $dot{x}=f(x)=Q(x)+Bx+c$, and produces a birational map $xmapsto widetilde{x}$ according to the formula $(widetilde{x}-x)/epsilon=Q(x,widetilde{x})+B(x+widetilde{x})/2+c$, where $Q(x,widetilde{x})$ is the symmetric bilinear form corresponding to the quadratic form $Q(x)$. When applied to integrable systems, Kahan discretization preserves integrability much more frequently than one would expect a priori, however not always. We show that in some cases where the original recipe fails to preserve integrability, one can adjust coefficients of the Kahan discretization to ensure its integrability.

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