Collective Lie-Poisson integrators on R3

We develop Lie–Poisson integrators for general Hamiltonian systems on ℝ3 equipped with the rigid body bracket. The method uses symplectic realization of ℝ3 on T*ℝ2 and application of symplectic Runge–Kutta schemes. As a consequence, we obtain simple symplectic integrators for general Hamiltonian systems on the sphere S2.