TY - JOUR T1 - Integrable Discretisation of the Lotka-Volterra System AU - He , Yang AU - Sun , Yajuan AU - Shang , Zaijiu JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 5 SP - 468 EP - 494 PY - 2015 DA - 2015/10 SN - 33 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1504-m4543 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/9855.html KW - Integrable Lotka-Volterra system, Hirota's integrable discretisation, Backward error analysis, Modified differential equation. AB -

In this paper, we apply Hirota's discretisation to a three-dimensional integrable Lotka-Volterra system. By analyzing the three-dimensional modified equation of the resulting numerical method, we show that it is volume-preserving, and has two independent first integrals. Moreover, it can be formally reduced to a system in one dimension via a volume-preserving transformation. If the given initial value is located in the positive octant, we prove that the numerical solution is confined to a one-dimensional connected and compact space which is diffeomorphic to a circle.