Stochastic modified equations for symplectic methods applied to rough Hamiltonian systems

Abstract We investigate stochastic modified equations to explain the mathematical mechanism of symplectic methods applied to rough Hamiltonian systems. The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, we construct a new type of stochastic modified equation. For symplectic methods applied to rough Hamiltonian systems, the associated stochastic modified equations are proved to have Hamiltonian formulations. Secondly, the pathwise convergence order of the truncated modified equation to the numerical method is obtained by techniques in rough path theory. Thirdly, if increments of noises are simulated by truncated random variables, we show that the error can be made exponentially small with respect to the time step size.