\(L ^{2}\) stability estimates for shock solutions of scalar conservation laws using the relative entropy method (Q717450)

The author considers initial value problems for scalar nonviscous conservation laws with general flux in one spatial dimension \[ \partial_tU+\partial_xA(U) = 0,\quad U(x,0) = U^0(x). \] For the flux \(A\) being smooth and convex and the \(L^\infty(\mathbb {R})\) initial distribution with \(U^0-\theta\in L^2(\mathbb {R})\) (\(\theta\) is piecewise constant with the single jump in zero) the global \(L^2\) stability result is proven: the norm of a perturbed solution relative to the shock wave is bounded by the norm of the initial perturbation up to the transition of the initial shock. The relative entropy method is applied.