{ "id": "1805.08382", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-05-22T04:15:56.000Z", "updated": "2018-05-22T04:15:56.000Z", "title": "Geometric and integrability properties of Kahan's method", "authors": [ "Elena Celledoni", "David McLaren", "Brynjulf Owren", "Reinout Quispel" ], "comment": "8 pages", "categories": [ "math.NA" ], "abstract": "Given a quadratic vector field on \\mathbb{R}^n possessing a quadratic first integral depending on two of the independent variables, we give a constructive proof that Kahan's discretization method exactly preserves a nearby modifed integral. Building on this result, we present a family of integrable quadratic vector fields (including the Euler top) whose Kahan discretization is a novel 10-parameter family of integrable maps.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-05-22T04:15:56.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "kahans method", "integrability properties", "kahans discretization method exactly preserves", "integrable quadratic vector fields", "quadratic first integral" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 8, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }