Integrable Duffing’s maps and solutions of the Duffing equation

In the numerical integration of nonlinear differential equations, discretization of the nonlinear terms poses extra ambiguity in reducing the differential equation to a discrete difference equation. As for the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation, it was well known that there exists the corresponding discrete soliton system. Here, representing the discrete systems by the mappings, we explore structure of the integrable mappings. We introduce the first kind and the second kind of Duffing’s map, and investigate temporal evolution of the orbits. Although the smooth periodic orbits are in accord with the solutions of the Duffing equation, the integrable Duffing’s maps provide much wider variety of orbits.