Stochastic modified equations for symplectic methods applied to rough Hamiltonian systems based on the Wong--Zakai approximation

Abstract: We investigate the stochastic modified equation which plays an important role in the stochastic backward error analysis for explaining the mathematical mechanism of a numerical method. The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, we construct a new type of stochastic modified equation, which is a perturbation of the Wong--Zakai approximation of the rough differential equation. For a symplectic method applied to a rough Hamiltonian system, the associated stochastic modified equation is proved to have a Hamiltonian formulation. Second, the pathwise convergence order of the truncated modified equation to the numerical method is obtained by techniques in the rough path theory. Third, if increments of noises are simulated by truncated random variables, we show that the one-step error can be made exponentially small with respect to the time step size. Numerical experiments verify our theoretical results.