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 or , when the gradient of the solution is positive or negative, respectively. In the stable case where for all , it was proved in [1] that the limits of vanishing viscosity approximations form a contractive semigroup w.r.t. the 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.
Cite
@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