TY - JOUR T1 - Characterizations of Symmetric Multistep Runge-Kutta Methods AU - Xiao , Aiguo AU - Gan , Siqing JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 6 SP - 791 EP - 796 PY - 2004 DA - 2004/12 SN - 22 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/8867.html KW - Multistep Runge-Kutta method, Symmetry. AB -

Some characterizations for symmetric multistep Runge-Kutta (RK) methods are obtained. Symmetric two-step RK methods with one and two-stages are presented. Numerical examples show that symmetry of multistep RK methods alone is not sufficient for long time integration for reversible Hamiltonian systems. This is an important difference between one-step and multistep symmetric RK methods.