Existence and uniqueness for a quasilinear hyperbolic equation with \(\sigma\)-finite Borel measures as initial conditions (Q1868995)

This paper considers the equation \[ {\partial u\over \partial t}+ {\partial u^m\over \partial x} +u^p=0\quad {\text{ in}} Q={\mathbb R}\times(0, \infty) \] with initial condition \[ u(x,0)=\mu(x)\quad \text{in} \mathbb R, \] where \(m>1\), \(p>0\) and \(\mu\) is a nonnegative \(\sigma\)-finite Borel measure. The main result states that, if \(m<p<m+1\), this Cauchy problem has a unique solution of bounded variation such that \(u(x,t)\leq \theta t^{-1/(p-1)}\) for a.e. \((x,t)\in Q\), where \(\theta\) depends only on \(m\).