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Title Superconvergence of Strang splitting for NLS in the d-dimensional torus

Name Philippe Chartier
Country France
Email philippe.chartier@inria.fr
Co-Author(s) Florian Mehats, Mechthild Thalhammer and Yong Zhang
Submit Time 2014-03-07 09:47:28
Session
Special Session 63: Advanced high order geometric numerical integration methods for differential equations
Contents
In this talk we investigate the convergence properties of semi-discretized approximations by Strang splitting method applied to fast-oscillating nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations. In a first step and for further use, we briefly adapt a known convergence result for Strang method in the context of NLS on $\T^d$ for a large class of nonlinearities. In a second step, we examine how errors depend on the length of the period $\varepsilon$, the solutions being considered on intervals of fixed length (independent of the period). Our main contribution is to show that Strang splitting with constant step-sizes is unexpectedly more accurate by a factor $\varepsilon$ as compared to established results when the step-size is chosen as an integer fraction of the period, owing to an averaging effect.