Invariant tori of dissipatively perturbed Hamiltonian systems under symplectic discretization Original Research Article

In a recent paper, Stoffer showed that, under a very weak restriction on the step size, weakly attractive invariant tori of dissipative perturbations of integrable Hamiltonian systems persist under symplectic numerical discretizations. Stofferʹs proof works directly with the discrete scheme. Here, we show how such a result, together with approximation estimates, can be obtained by combining Hamiltonian perturbation theory and backward error analysis of numerical integrators. In addition, we extend Stofferʹs result to dissipative perturbations of non-integrable Hamiltonian systems in the neighborhood of a KAM torus.