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Scalar Conservation Laws with white noise initial data

Probability 2022-04-22 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The statistical description of the scalar conservation law of the form ρt=H(ρ)x\rho_t=H(\rho)_x with H:RRH: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R} a smooth convex function has been an object of interest when the initial profile ρ(,0)\rho(\cdot,0) is random. The special case when H(ρ)=ρ22H(\rho)=\frac{\rho^2}{2} (Burgers equation) has in particular received extensive interest in the past and is now understood for various random initial conditions. We solve in this paper a conjecture on the profile of the solution at any time t>0t>0 for a general class of hamiltonians HH and show that it is a stationary piecewise-smooth Feller process. Along the way, we study the excursion process of the two-sided linear Brownian motion WW below any strictly convex function ϕ\phi with superlinear growth and derive a generalized Chernoff distribution of the random variable argmaxzR(W(z)ϕ(z))\text{argmax}_{z \in \mathbb{R}} (W(z)-\phi(z)). Finally, when ρ(,0)\rho(\cdot,0) is a white noise derived from an abrupt L\'evy process, we show that the shocks structure of the solution is a.s discrete at any fixed time t>0t>0 under some mild assumptions on HH.

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@article{arxiv.2012.00200,
  title  = {Scalar Conservation Laws with white noise initial data},
  author = {Mehdi Ouaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.00200},
  year   = {2022}
}

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38 pages, 2 figures

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