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Long-time averaging for integrable Hamiltonian dynamics

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Given a Hamiltonian dynamical system, we address the question of computing the limit of the time-average of an observable. For a completely integrable system, it is known that ergodicity can be characterized by a diophantine condition on its frequencies and that this limit coincides with the space-average over an invariant manifold. In this paper, we show that we can improve the rate of convergence upon using a filter function in the time-averages. We then show that this convergence persists when a symplectic numerical scheme is applied to the system, up to the order of the integrator.

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Cancès, E., Castella, F., Chartier, P. et al. Long-time averaging for integrable Hamiltonian dynamics. Numer. Math. 100, 211–232 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00211-005-0599-0

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