Time regularity for the system of isentropic gas dynamics with γ= 3 (Q4719933)

The author studies the system of equations \[ \partial_t\rho+ \partial_xP= 0,\quad \partial_t P+ \partial_x((P^2/\rho)+ (\rho^3/12))= 0,\quad t\geq 0,\quad x\in\mathbb{R}, \] describing the 1D movement of an isentropic gas with \(\gamma=3\), (\(p(\rho)= a\rho^\gamma\), \(a>0\), \(\gamma> 1\), the state law of the gas), where: \(\rho(t, x)\geq 0\) -- the density of the gas, \(P(t,x)\) -- its momentum. The study is made under the condition that the entropy-admissible solutions of the above system satisfy the inequality \[ \partial_t\eta(\rho, P)+ \partial_x H(\rho, P)\leq 0 \] in the sense of distributions, with the notations: \(\eta\) -- the entropy, \(H\) -- the entropy flux. The difficulty of the problem appears at the same time when shocks appear in the movement; in this case it isn't possible to uncouple the system of equations. The purpose of the paper is to show that every solution of the system which is in \(L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^+\times \mathbb{R})\) lies in \(C^0(\mathbb{R}^+, L^1_{\text{loc}}(\mathbb{R}))\). To realize this goal, the author expresses the system in the kinetic formulation after a method proposed by P. L. Lions, B. Perthame and E. Tadmor which supposes the introduction of a microscopic density function \(f(t,x,v)\), \(v\) -- the velocity, with some properties. The main result of the paper is focused in a theorem asserting that ``Every solution \(f\in L^1(\mathbb{R}^+\times \mathbb{R}\times [-L,L])\) of the kinetic formulation lies in \(C^0(\mathbb{R}^+, L^1_{\text{loc}}(\mathbb{R}\times [-L, L]))\)''. For the proof of this theorem the author gives a sketch and demonstrates some other lemmas and propositions. The paper can be considered as a first attempt to get time regularity results for solutions of conservation laws systems.