On spae-time decay properties of solutions to hyperbolic-elliptic coupled systems (Q1860647)

The authors study the initial value problem for a certain class of hyperbolic-elliptic coupled systems, more precisely \[ \begin{cases} w_t+F(w,q)_x=0,\\ -q_{xx} +\widetilde Rq+\mu(w,q)G(w,q)_x=0,\\ w(x,0)=w_0(x),\end{cases} \] where \(w=w(x,t)\) and \(q=q(x,t)\) are unknown functions taking values in a domain \(\Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}^m\) and \(\mathbb{R}^n\), respectively, \(x\in \mathbb{R}^1\), \(t\geq 0\), while \(F=F(w,q)\), \(G=G(w,q)\) and \(\mu(w,q)\) are given smooth mappings from \(\Omega\times \mathbb{R}^n\) into \(\mathbb{R}^m\), \(\mathbb{R}^n\) and \(\mathbb{R}^1_+=\{x\in \mathbb{R}^1\mid x>0\}\), respectively, and \(\widetilde R\) is a positive definite \(n\times n\) matrix of real constant entries. They prove that the solution is time asymptotically approximated by the superposition of diffusion waves constructed in terms of the selfsimilar solutions of the generalized Burgers equation.