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Autore principale: Bayona, Víctor
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Bayona, Víctor
author_facet Bayona, Víctor
contents We present a unified framework for the construction of localized exponential integrators that bypasses the traditional trade-off between the accuracy of global spectral methods and the efficiency of sparse finite differences. By evaluating the matrix exponential of a discrete operator strictly within a local stencil of size $n$, we "harvest" integration weights that naturally incorporate high-order temporal corrections. We prove that this Local Matrix Exponential Propagator (LMEP) is algebraically isomorphic to optimal semi-Lagrangian transport for advection and provides algebraically exact coupled evolution for mixed-physics operators, effectively eliminating the commutator errors associated with operator splitting. The framework is extended to semi-linear systems via a localized augmented matrix approach, facilitating the evaluation of Exponential Time Differencing (ETD) $ϕ$-functions through sparse, banded operations. Numerical experiments on the viscous Burgers, Korteweg-de Vries, and Allen-Cahn equations demonstrate that the method preserves high-order temporal accuracy and exhibits superior stability at high Courant numbers across both periodic and non-periodic domains. We empirically demonstrate that this localized approach yields optimal $\mathcal{O}(N)$ scaling and, for high-CFL upwind configurations, total execution times that remain strictly independent of the spatial approximation order.
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spellingShingle Unifying Finite Differences and Semi-Lagrangian Schemes via Localized Matrix Exponentials
Bayona, Víctor
Numerical Analysis
We present a unified framework for the construction of localized exponential integrators that bypasses the traditional trade-off between the accuracy of global spectral methods and the efficiency of sparse finite differences. By evaluating the matrix exponential of a discrete operator strictly within a local stencil of size $n$, we "harvest" integration weights that naturally incorporate high-order temporal corrections. We prove that this Local Matrix Exponential Propagator (LMEP) is algebraically isomorphic to optimal semi-Lagrangian transport for advection and provides algebraically exact coupled evolution for mixed-physics operators, effectively eliminating the commutator errors associated with operator splitting. The framework is extended to semi-linear systems via a localized augmented matrix approach, facilitating the evaluation of Exponential Time Differencing (ETD) $ϕ$-functions through sparse, banded operations. Numerical experiments on the viscous Burgers, Korteweg-de Vries, and Allen-Cahn equations demonstrate that the method preserves high-order temporal accuracy and exhibits superior stability at high Courant numbers across both periodic and non-periodic domains. We empirically demonstrate that this localized approach yields optimal $\mathcal{O}(N)$ scaling and, for high-CFL upwind configurations, total execution times that remain strictly independent of the spatial approximation order.
title Unifying Finite Differences and Semi-Lagrangian Schemes via Localized Matrix Exponentials
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15964