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# Generating functions for stochastic symplectic methods

• Symplectic integration of stochastic Hamiltonian systems is a developing branch of stochastic numerical analysis. In the present paper, a stochastic generating function approach is proposed, based on the derivation of stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs satisfied by the generating functions, and a method of approximating solutions to them. Thus, a systematic approach of constructing stochastic symplectic methods is provided. As validation, numerical tests on several stochastic Hamiltonian systems are performed, where some symplectic schemes are constructed via stochastic generating functions. Moreover, generating functions for some known stochastic symplectic mappings are given.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 65P10, 65C30, 65C20, 65H10.

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