Explicit and Effectively Symmetric (EES) Runge–Kutta schemes #
Following arXiv:2507.21006, Section 8. The antisymmetric component of any
B-series method vanishes on forests of odd order (Proposition 8.2,
prop:plus_zero), so the antisymmetric order of a method is always odd or
infinite; a method is symmetric precisely when its antisymmetric component is
trivial at every order. An EES(n, m) scheme is an explicit Runge–Kutta
scheme of order exactly n and antisymmetric order exactly m.
The antisymmetric component vanishes at odd orders: τ⁺ = 0 for
|τ| odd (arXiv:2507.21006, Proposition plus_zero), in functional form.
A B-series method has antisymmetric order at least m if its
antisymmetric component agrees with the counit on all forests of order at
most m, i.e. ψ(τ⁺) = 0 for 1 ≤ |τ| ≤ m
(arXiv:2507.21006, Definition 8.1).
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The antisymmetric order is odd (or infinite): since τ⁺ = 0 at odd
orders, antisymmetric order at an even m extends automatically to m + 1
(arXiv:2507.21006, Section 8).
An odd (symmetric) character has trivial antisymmetric component.
Symmetric methods have infinite antisymmetric order.
A method with infinite antisymmetric order is symmetric.
A B-series method is symmetric iff its antisymmetric order is infinite (arXiv:2507.21006, Section 8).
A Runge–Kutta tableau is explicit when its stage matrix is strictly lower triangular with respect to a linear order on the stages.
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- rk.IsExplicit = ∀ (i j : ι), i ≤ j → rk.A i j = 0
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Composition preserves explicitness, ordering all first-block stages before the second block (lexicographic order on the stages).
An Explicit and Effectively Symmetric scheme of order n and
antisymmetric order m: an explicit Runge–Kutta scheme with ord(ψ) = n and
ord⁺(ψ) = m (arXiv:2507.21006, Definition 8.2, the class EES(n, m)).
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The antisymmetric order of an EES scheme is odd
(arXiv:2507.21006, Section 8): the class EES(n, m) is empty for even m.
The antisymmetric order dominates the order: a method agreeing with
the exact solution up to order n has antisymmetric order at least n
(arXiv:2507.21006, Section 8: ord⁺(ψ) ≥ ord(ψ)).
The antisymmetric component detects the leading defect at even
orders: if ψ agrees with the exact solution up to an odd order m,
then at order m + 1 the antisymmetric component equals the defect of ψ.
Hence a method of order exactly m (m odd) has antisymmetric order
exactly m (arXiv:2507.21006, Section 8).
A character is its own square root's square: ψ = (ψ⋆ψ)^{1/2}
pointwise.
Equivalence of the SC and EC order conditions
(arXiv:2507.21006, Section 8): the antisymmetric order conditions
ψ(τ⁺) = 0 up to order m hold iff the square-free conditions
(ψ⋆ψ)(τ) = (ψ*⋆ψ)(τ) hold up to order m — a criterion involving only
convolutions and the antipode, with no square roots.