Conservation conjecture for truncated modified Hamiltonians in symplectic Euler

Let P,QRd\mathcal{P},\mathcal{Q}\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{d} be closed and convex, and let F:PRF:\mathcal{P}\rightarrow\mathbb{R} and G:QRG:\mathcal{Q}\rightarrow\mathbb{R} be LL-smooth of orders 1,,N+21,\dots,N+2. For symplectic Euler with stepsize η>0\eta>0, write H~η(N)\widetilde{H}_{\eta}^{(N)} for the NNth-order truncated modified Hamiltonian and let zkz_k denote the state after kk iterations. Conservation conjecture. For each NN0N\in\mathbb{N}_{0}, there exists a monotonic increasing, bounded function Φ:N0Q\Phi:\mathbb{N}_{0}\rightarrow\mathbb{Q} such that

H~η(N)(zk)H~η(N)(z0)kΦ(N)LN+3ηN+2.\left|\widetilde{H}_{\eta}^{(N)}(z_{k})-\widetilde{H}_{\eta}^{(N)}(z_0)\right|\leq k\Phi(N)L^{N+3}\eta^{N+2}.

This conjecture predicts that the conservation error grows linearly with the number of iterations, improves with the truncation order, and decreases with the stepsize. The source presents it as an expected but unproved dependence on the problem parameters.

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Jonas Katona, Xiuyuan Wang and Andre Wibisono, “A Symplectic Analysis of Alternating Mirror Descent”, arXiv:2405.03472 (2025).

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