Generalized solutions to semilinear hyperbolic systems (Q1820929)

Semilinear hyperbolic first order systems in two variables are considered, whose nonlinearity satisfies a global Lipschitz condition. It is shown that these systems admit unique global solutions in the Colombeau algebra \({\mathcal G}({\mathbb{R}}^ 2)\). In particular, this provides unique generalized solutions for arbitrary distributions as initial data. The solutions in \({\mathcal G}({\mathbb{R}}^ 2)\) are shown to be consistent with the locally integrable or the distributional solutions, when they exist.