A third-order low-regularity trigonometric integrator for the semilinear Klein-Gordon equation

In this paper, we propose and analyze a novel third-order low-regularity trigonometric integrator for the semilinear Klein-Gordon equation in the d-dimensional space with d=1,2,3. The integrator is constructed based on the full use of Duhamel's formula and the technique of twisted function to the trigonometric integrals. Rigorous error estimates are presented and the proposed method is shown to have third-order accuracy in the energy space under a weak regularity requirement in H^2× H^1. A numerical experiment shows that the proposed third-order low-regularity integrator is much more accurate than the well-known exponential integrators of order three for approximating the Klein-Gordon equation with nonsmooth solutions.