On the Approximation of Linear Hamiltonian Systems

Abstract

When we study the oscillation of a physical system near its equilibrium and ignore dissipative effects, we may assume it is a linear Hamiltonian system (H-system), which possesses a special symplectic structure. Thus there arises a question: how to take this structure into account in the approximation of the H-system? This question was first answered by Feng Kang for finite dimensional H-systems.
We will in this paper discuss the symplectic difference schemes preserving the symplectic structure and its related properties, with emphasis on the infinite dimensional H-systems.