TY - JOUR T1 - Construction of Canonical Difference Schemes for Hamiltonian Formalism via Generating Functions AU - Feng , Kang AU - Wu , Hua-Mo AU - Qin , Meng-Zhao AU - Wang , Dao-Liu JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 1 SP - 71 EP - 96 PY - 1989 DA - 1989/07 SN - 7 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/9457.html KW - AB -

This paper discusses the relationship between canonical maps and generating functions and gives the general Hamilton-Jacobi theory for time-independent Hamiltonian systems. Based on this theory, the general method — the generating function method — of the construction of difference schemes for Hamiltonian systems is considered. The transition of such difference schemes from one time-step to the next is canonical. So they are called the canonical difference schemes. The well known Euler centered scheme is a canonical difference scheme. Its higher order canonical generalisations and other families of canonical difference schemes are given. The construction method proposed in the paper is also applicable to time-dependent Hamiltonian systems.