Analysis of a defect correction method for geometric integrators

We discuss a new variant of Iterated Defect Correction (IDeC), which increases the range of applicability of the method. Splitting methods are utilized in conjunction with special integration methods for Hamiltonian systems, or other initial value problems for ordinary differential equations with a particular structure, to solve the neighboring problems occurring in the course of the IDeC iteration. We demonstrate that this acceleration technique serves to rapidly increase the convergence order of the resulting numerical approximations, up to the theoretical limit given by the order of certain superconvergent collocation methods. This project was supported by the Special Research Program SFB F011 ‘AURORA’ of the Austrian Science Fund FWF.