Energy-Preserving Continuous-Stage Exponential Runge--Kutta Integrators for Efficiently Solving Hamiltonian Systems

As one of the most important properties, energy preservation is a natural requirement for numerical integrators of Hamiltonian systems. Considering the limited second-order accuracy of the existing exponential average vector filed (or discrete gradient) method, this paper is devoted to developing high-order energy-preserving exponential integrators for general semilinear Hamiltonian systems. To this end, we first formulate and analyze the continuous-stage exponential Runge--Kutta (ERK) method. After deriving the order conditions, energy-preserving conditions, and symmetric conditions for the continuous-stage ERK method, we construct a novel class of fourth-order symmetric energy-preserving continuous-stage ERK methods with a free parameter based on the established conditions and present a convergence theorem for the fixed-point iteration associated with the continuous-stage ERK method. Furthermore, we extend the proposed continuous-stage ERK method to noncanonical Hamiltonian systems and discuss implementation issues in detail. Finally, numerical results from the FPU problem, the charged-particle dynamics, and the Klein--Gordon equation demonstrate the high efficiency, good energy-preserving behavior, and applicability of large time stepsizes of the proposed fourth-order energy-preserving continuous-stage ERK method.