Multistep methods integrating ordinary differential equations on manifolds

This paper presents a family of generalized multistep methods that evolves the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations on configuration spaces formulated as homogeneous manifolds. Any classical multistep method may be employed as an invariant method, and the order of the invariant method is as high as in the classical setting. We present numerical results that reflect some of the properties of the multistep methods. (C) 2001 IMACS. Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.