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Structure of shocks in Burgers turbulence with L\'evy noise initial data

Probability 2015-06-04 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the structure of the shocks for the inviscid Burgers equation in dimension 1 when the initial velocity is given by L\'evy noise, or equivalently when the initial potential is a two-sided L\'evy process ψ0\psi_0. When ψ0\psi_0 is abrupt in the sense of Vigon or has bounded variation with lim suph0h2ψ0(h)=\limsup_{|h| \downarrow 0} h^{-2} \psi_0(h) = \infty, we prove that the set of points with zero velocity is regenerative, and that in the latter case this set is equal to the set of Lagrangian regular points, which is non-empty. When ψ0\psi_0 is abrupt we show that the shock structure is discrete. When ψ0\psi_0 is eroded we show that there are no rarefaction intervals.

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@article{arxiv.1204.4752,
  title  = {Structure of shocks in Burgers turbulence with L\'evy noise initial data},
  author = {Joshua Abramson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.4752},
  year   = {2015}
}

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