Concave majorant of stochastic processes and Burgers turbulence (Q430969)

The author analyses the structure of shocks for the one-dimensional inviscid Burgers equation when the initial potential \(\psi_0(x)\) (associated with the solution of the Burgers equation) is a Lévy process with bounded variation, no drift and infinite Lévy measure. The analysis is performed by studying the projection onto the \(x\)-axis of the subset of the set of extremal points of the convex hull of \(\psi_0(x)\) consisting of points lying on the upper boundary.