Stochastic conformal integrators for linearly damped stochastic Poisson systems
Charles-Edouard Bréhier, David Cohen, Yoshio Komori
TL;DR
This work tackles the numerical integration of linearly damped stochastic Poisson systems by introducing stochastic conformal exponential integrators that preserve conformal invariants. The method leverages Strang splitting and discrete gradients to respect the Poisson structure, and employs truncated Wiener increments to ensure well-posed implicit updates. Key contributions include proofs of conformal Casimir preservation for quadratic Casimirs, energy balance for homogeneous Hamiltonians, and strong/weak convergence rates (strong: $1/2$ generally, $1$ when $M=1$; weak: $1$) under appropriate moment bounds. Theoretical results are complemented by extensive numerical experiments on pendulum, rigid body with random inertia, Lotka–Volterra, Maxwell–Bloch, and other damped Poisson systems, demonstrating structure preservation, stability, and accuracy with practical significance for stochastic geometric computation.
Abstract
We propose and study conformal integrators for linearly damped stochastic Poisson systems. We analyse the qualitative and quantitative properties of these numerical integrators: preservation of dynamics of certain Casimir and Hamiltonian functions, almost sure bounds of the numerical solutions, and strong and weak rates of convergence under appropriate conditions. These theoretical results are illustrated with several numerical experiments on, for example, the linearly damped free rigid body with random inertia tensor or the linearly damped stochastic Lotka--Volterra system.
