TY - JOUR T1 - A Magnus Expansion for the Equation $Y'= AY - YB^*$ AU - Arieh Iserles JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 1 SP - 15 EP - 26 PY - 2001 DA - 2001/02 SN - 19 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/8953.html KW - Geometric integration, Magnus expansions, Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula. AB -

The subject matter of this paper is the representation of the solution of the linear differential equation $Y'= AY - YB, Y(0) = Y_0,$ in the form $Y(t) = e^{Ω(t)}Y_0$ and the representation of the function n as a generalization of the classical Magnus expansion. An immediate application is a new recursive algorithm for the derivation of the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula and its symmetric generalisation.