On a class of modified Cayley--Magnus methods

Mathematics > Numerical Analysis [Submitted on 17 Jun 2026] Title:On a class of modified Cayley--Magnus methods View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:We introduce a new class of numerical integrators for the time integration of non-autonomous linear ordinary differential equations whose coefficient matrix is sparse and evolves within a quadratic matrix Lie group. In contrast to standard Lie group integrators, the proposed methods avoid the evaluation of matrix exponentials acting on vectors and instead rely on solving a sequence of linear systems with sparse coefficient matrices. Moreover, they are well suited for problems arising from unbounded operators, as they inherently produce bounded solutions. We construct optimised schemes of orders four and six and assess their performance on a representative numerical example, demonstrating clear advantages over existing Lie-group integrators. Current browse context: math.NA References & Citations Loading... Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Recommenders and Search Tools Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs.