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I'm doing my thesis in numerics for symplectic flow maps, and was really excited to see the popular press to somewhat cover the world I'm living in. I also spe
by thanatropism 10y ago
I'm doing my thesis in numerics for symplectic flow maps, and was really excited to see the popular press to somewhat cover the world I'm living in.
I also spent days on end joking about how the new generation of alt-medicine gurus will be "symplectic holistic healers" and how I want a piece of that. Out with quantum theory, in with symplectic physics!
- balsam 10y agoHi, I'm just getting started out in this area (background: quantum physics). Are there review papers or slides you would recommend? For the numerics. I'm somewhat familiar with Wehrheim and da Silva, but didn't realize that people were going into numerics already.
- thanatropism 10y agoOn numerics: there are entire textbooks at a relatively elementary level (no differential geometry) with titles like "Simulating Hamiltonian dynamics". At the end of the day, verifying that a discrete map (approximating a Hamiltonian system) is symplectomorphic is a matter of linear algebra. On theory: there are a couple of good lectures by Dusa McDuff on YouTube; she also has a short tutorial-like PDF somewhere googleable.