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Unique Solutions to Hyperbolic Conservation Laws with a Strictly Convex Entropy

Analysis of PDEs 2023-05-19 v1

Abstract

Consider a strictly hyperbolic n×nn\times n system of conservation laws, where each characteristic field is either genuinely nonlinear or linearly degenerate. In this standard setting, it is well known that there exists a Lipschitz semigroup of weak solutions, defined on a domain of functions with small total variation. If the system admits a strictly convex entropy, we give a short proof that every entropy weak solution taking values within the domain of the semigroup coincides with a semigroup trajectory. The result shows that the assumptions of ``Tame Variation" or ``Tame Oscillation", previously used to achieve uniqueness, can be removed in the presence of a strictly convex entropy.

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@article{arxiv.2305.10737,
  title  = {Unique Solutions to Hyperbolic Conservation Laws with a Strictly Convex Entropy},
  author = {Alberto Bressan and Graziano Guerra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.10737},
  year   = {2023}
}

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15 pages, 3 figures

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