Flow properties for Young-measure solutions of semilinear hyperbolic problems (Q4243032)

For semilinear hyperbolic systems in one spatial dimension \[ \partial_t u + C\partial_x u=f(u), \quad u(t,x)\in \mathbb{R}^d, \] the author studies Young-measure solutions which are weak limits of sequences of generalized solutions. In the class of Young-measures having product structure a flow mapping \(S_t\) is constructed such that \(\mu(t)=S_t(\nu)\) is the unique (in the class under consideration) Young-measure solution for the initial value \(\nu\). For \(d\leq 2\) it is proved that any Young-measure solution has product structure and therefore it is uniquely determined by initial data. For \(d\geq 3\) counterexamples are given which show that neither \(\mu\) nor marginal measures of the Riemann invariants are uniquely determined by \(\nu\), except if a certain structural interaction condition for \(f\) is satisfied (then there is uniqueness of the corresponding marginal measures). The author relies on ideas of transport theory and make use of the Wasserstein distance on the space of probability measures.