The validity of nonlinear geometric optics for weak solutions of conservation laws

bounded variation compact support conservation laws equation of Burgers' type initial data nonlinear geometric optics nonlinear hyperbolic system periodic initial data weak solutions

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Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs (35A35) Initial value problems for first-order hyperbolic systems (35L45) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Geometric optics (78A05)

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It is shown that the solution u(x,t) to the genuinely nonlinear hyperbolic system of n conservation laws \[ u_ t+f(u)_ x=0,\quad u(x,0)=u_ 0+\epsilon v(x) \] in one space dimension satisfies \[ u(x,t)=u_ 0+\epsilon \sum^{n}_{j=1}\sigma^ j(\phi^ j,\tau)r_ j(u_ 0)+O(\epsilon^ 2)\quad for\quad \epsilon \to 0, \] where \(r_ j\) are right eigenvectors of the matrix \(f'(u_ 0)\), and the scalar functions \(\sigma^ j\) are solutions of an equation of Burgers' type. It is shown that for initial data v with compact support and bounded variation the terms \(O(\epsilon^ 2)\) is uniformly small for all \(t>0\) in the \(L_ 1\)-norm. Similar estimates are given for periodic initial data v.

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