Coordinates for the phase space \((q_1,p_1)\in\mathbb{R}^{2n}\)
We want to solve the initial value problem
And we rely on the correspondent conservative formulation in the variables \((q,p):=(q_1,q_2,p_1,p_2)\in\mathbb{R}^{2n}\)
We approximate \(t\mapsto (q_1(t),q_2(t),p_1(t),p_2(t))\) by composing maps of the following form
Preserving the physical limit means having \(q_1(t)=q_2(t)\) and \(p_1(t)=p_2(t)\)
This can be obtained by constraining suitably the weights.
Additionally, \(\Phi_j^t\) is symplectic by construction for every \(t\):
We then find \(\theta\) by minimising
Where we collect in \(\theta\) all the free parameters in the model.