Symplectic P-stable Additive Runge--Kutta Methods

Abstract

Symplectic partitioned Runge--Kutta methods can be obtained from a variational formulation where all the terms in the discrete Lagrangian are treated with the same quadrature formula. We construct a family of symplectic methods allowing the use of different quadrature formulas (primary and secondary) for different terms of the Lagrangian. In particular, we study a family of methods using Lobatto quadrature (with corresponding Lobatto IIIA-B symplectic pair) as a primary method and Gauss--Legendre quadrature as a secondary method. The methods have the same favourable implicitness as the underlying Lobatto IIIA-B pair, and, in addition, they are \emph{P-stable}, therefore suitable for application to highly oscillatory problems.