Finite element exterior calculus for time-dependent Hamiltonian partial differential equations
arXiv:2601.00103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The success of symplectic integrators for Hamiltonian ODEs has led to a decades-long program of research seeking analogously structure-preserving numerical methods for Hamiltonian PDEs. In this paper, we construct a large class of such methods by combining finite element exterior calculus (FEEC) for spatial semidiscretization with symplectic integrators for time discretization. The resulting methods satisfy a local multisymplectic conservation law in space and time, which generalizes the symplectic conservation law of Hamiltonian ODEs, […]