Long time existence of a class of perturbations of planar shock fronts for second order hyperbolic conservation laws (Q2640053)

By reducing the shock front problem of the form \[ (1)\quad \sum_{0\leq i\leq N}\partial_ i(H^ i(\phi '))=0,\text{ where } \phi '=(\partial_ 0\phi,\partial_ x\phi),\quad \partial_ i=\partial /\partial x_ i,\quad \partial_ x\phi =(\partial_ 1\phi,...,\partial_ N\phi), \] to a mixed problem in a quarter space via the partial hodograf transform a global planar shock front solution satisfying Lax type entropy conditions is studied. It is shown that small \(C^{\infty}\) compatible perturbations with compact support of the data give rise to shock fronts with long lifespan (if \(N\geq 5)\) which remain stable and almost planar.