Error estimate and long-time energy conservation of a symmetric low-regularity integrator for nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation

In this paper, we formulate and analyse a symmetric low-regularity integrator for solving the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation in the $d$-dimensional space with $d=1,2,3$. The integrator is constructed based on the two-step trigonometric method and the proposed integrator has a simple form. Error estimates are rigorously presented to show that the integrator can achieve second-order time accuracy in the energy space under the regularity requirement in $H^{1+\frac{d}{4}}\times H^{\frac{d}{4}}$. Moreover, the time symmetry of the scheme ensures the good long-time energy conservation which is rigorously proved by the technique of modulated Fourier expansions. A numerical test is presented and the numerical results demonstrate the superiorities of the new integrator over some existing methods.