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A Uniqueness Condition for Conservation Laws with Discontinuous Gradient-Dependent Flux

Analysis of PDEs 2026-03-12 v1

Abstract

The paper is concerned with a scalar conservation law with discontinuous gradient-dependent flux. Namely, the flux is described by two different functions f(u)f(u) or g(u)g(u), when the gradient uxu_x of the solution is positive or negative, respectively. In the stable case where f(u)<g(u)f(u)<g(u) for all uRu\in R, it was proved in [1] that the limits of vanishing viscosity approximations form a contractive semigroup w.r.t. the L1L^1 distance. Further, they coincide with the limits of a suitable family of front tracking approximations. In the present paper we introduce a simple condition that guarantees that every weak, entropy admissible solution of a Cauchy problem coincides with the corresponding semigroup trajectory, and hence is unique.

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@article{arxiv.2603.10214,
  title  = {A Uniqueness Condition for Conservation Laws with Discontinuous Gradient-Dependent Flux},
  author = {Alberto Bressan and Wen Shen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.10214},
  year   = {2026}
}

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21 pages

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