Weak solutions of general systems of hyperbolic conservation laws (Q1396177)

The authors establish the existence theory for a general system of hyperbolic conservation laws, obtain the uniform \(L_1\) boundedness for the solutions and construct the solutions by the Glimm scheme through the wave tracing method. They introduce a new analysis to verify the consistency of the wave tracing procedure, and make use of the entropy functional to study the \(L_1\) boundedness. The results presented in this paper are significant.