On the influence of small dissipation on solutions of a hyperbolic system that have a weak discontinuity (Q1386596)

Consider the hyperbolic system \[ {\partial U_0\over\partial t}+ A(U_0){\partial U_0\over\partial x}= 0,\tag{1} \] where \(x\in\mathbb{R}\), \(U_0\in\mathbb{R}^n\), and \(A(U_0)\in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}\). Assume that there exists a solution \(U_0(x, t)\) to problem (1) for \(0\leq t\leq T\), which is smooth everywhere with the exception of the line \(x= x_0(t)\), on which \(\partial U_0/\partial x\) has a discontinuity of the first kind. In this paper, we study the asymptotics of solutions to the perturbed system \[ {\partial U\over\partial t}+ A(U){\partial U\over\partial x}= \varepsilon^2 B(U){\partial^2U\over \partial x^2}\tag{2} \] for \(\varepsilon\to 0\), with the same intial data \(U_0(x, 0)\). We assume that the matrices \(A(U)\) and \(B(U)\) are smooth and the eigenvalues of the matrix \(A(U_0(x, t))\) are real and distinct. In this paper, we suggest a method for the construction of the asymptotic solution to the Cauchy problem for equation (2) with an accuracy to any power of \(\varepsilon\).