Stability of front tracking solutions to the initial and boundary value problem for systems of conservation laws (Q2474191)

The paper deals with strictly hyperbolic systems \(u_t +F(u)_x = 0\) of \(n\) conservation laws in one space dimension under the boundary condition \(b(u(\psi(t),t))=g(t),\) where \(g\) is a function of small total variation prescribed on the boundary curve \(x=\psi(t)\) and \(b\) is continuously differentiable. The vector field \(F\) is defined on some open neighborhood \(\Omega\) of the origin in \(\mathbb{R}^n\), and the boundary is assumed to be non-characteristic, i.e. \[ \inf_{u\in\Omega, t\geq 0} \text{dist}(\dot{\psi}(t), \text{spec}\,DF(u))>0 \] Under these assumption the Riemann problem can be solved uniquely by applying a result of Goodman to get the solution at the boundary. It can then be shown that for initial data with sufficiently small total variation \(\varepsilon\)-approximate solutions can be constructed by a front tracking algorithm à la Bressan and that those front tracking solutions are stable with respect to the \(L^1\)-topology. Here, some technical issues have to be resolved due to the fact that solutions with different boundary profiles are compared to each other.