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On the chain rule formulas for divergences and applications to conservation laws

Analysis of PDEs 2019-05-24 v1

Abstract

In this paper we prove a nonautonomous chain rule formula for the distributional divergence of the composite function v(x)=B(x,u(x))\boldsymbol{v}(x)=\boldsymbol{B}(x,u(x)), where B(,t)\boldsymbol{B}(\cdot,t) is a divergence--measure vector field and uu is a function of bounded variation. As an application, we prove a uniqueness result for scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux.

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@article{arxiv.1605.09005,
  title  = {On the chain rule formulas for divergences and applications to conservation laws},
  author = {Graziano Crasta and Virginia De Cicco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.09005},
  year   = {2019}
}

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19 pages