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Publications and source records attributed to Boguslaw Ratkiewicz.
We present a new numerical scheme for one dimensional dynamical systems. This is a modification of the discrete gradient method and keeps its advantages, including the stability and the conservation of the energy integral. However, its accuracy is higher by several orders of magnitude.
We show that any second order linear ordinary diffrential equation with constant coefficients (including the damped and undumped harmonic oscillator equation) admits an exact discretization, i.e., there exists a difference equation whose solutions exactly coincide with solutions of the corresponding differential equation evaluated at a discrete sequence of points (a lattice). Such exact discretization is found for an arbitrary lattice spacing.