Long-time analysis of an extended RKN integrator for Hamiltonian systems with a solution-dependent high frequency

Abstract

In this paper, we analyse the long-time behaviour of an extended RKN (ERKN) integrator for solving highly oscillatory Hamiltonian systems with a slowly varying, solution-dependent high frequency. We prove that a symmetric ERKN integrator approximately conserves a modified action and a modified total energy over long time intervals based on the technique of varying-frequency modulated Fourier expansion. An illustrative numerical experiment is carried out and the numerical results strongly support the theoretical analysis presented in this paper. As a byproduct of this work, similar long-time behaviour is also investigated for an RKN method.