INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER MATHEMATICS, cilt.62, ss.63-71, 1996 (SCI-Expanded)
The rigid body Lie-Poisson structure in three dimensions is considered. We show that the symplectic collocation type Runge-Kutta methods preserve the one-form of the underlying system. The linear error growth, energy and momentum conservation properties of the numerical solutions are discussed for Euler top equation.