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$L^2$-contraction of large planar shock waves for multi-dimensional scalar viscous conservation laws

Analysis of PDEs 2016-09-08 v1

Abstract

We consider a L2L^2-contraction of large viscous shock waves for the multi-dimensional scalar viscous conservation laws, up to a suitable shift. The shift function depends on the time and space variables. It solves a parabolic equation with inhomogeneous coefficients reflecting the perturbation. We consider a suitably small L2L^2-perturbation around a viscous planar shock wave of arbitrarily large strength. However, we do not impose any condition on the anti-derivative variables of the perturbation around shock profile. More precisely, it is proved that if the initial perturbation around the viscous shock wave is suitably small in the L2L^2 norm, then the L2L^2-contraction holds true for the viscous shock wave up to a shift function which may depend on the temporal and spatial variables. Moreover, as the time tt tends to infinity, the L2L^2-contraction holds true up to a time-dependent shift function. In particular, if we choose some special initial perturbation, then we can prove a L2L^2 convergence of the solutions towards the associated shock profile up to a time-dependent shift.

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@article{arxiv.1609.01825,
  title  = {$L^2$-contraction of large planar shock waves for multi-dimensional scalar viscous conservation laws},
  author = {Moon-Jin Kang and Alexis Vasseur and Yi Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.01825},
  year   = {2016}
}