Total oscillation diminishing property for scalar conservation laws (Q2575162)

The paper deals with a bounded variation estimate for the following scalar conservation law \[ \frac{\partial}{\partial t} u + \frac{\partial}{\partial x}A(u) = 0, \quad t>0, \;x \in \mathbb{R}, \] \[ u(0,\cdot) = u^0 \in L^1 \cap L^\infty (\mathbb{R}). \] The authors prove that the entropy solution of the above problem satisfies, for all Lipschitz continuous monotone functions \(\Phi:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\), \[ | \Phi(u(t))| _{TV(\mathbb{R})} \leq | \Phi(u^0)| _{TV(\mathbb{R})}, \quad t>0. \]