On the regularity of weak solutions to Burgers' equation with finite entropy production

DOI10.1007/S00526-018-1380-4MaRDI QIDQ1656478zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 10 August 2018

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.07633

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) First-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L60) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65)

Abstract: Bounded weak solutions of Burgers' equation

p a r t i a l_{t} u + p a r t i a l_{x} (u^{2} / 2) = 0

that are not entropy solutions need in general not be

B V

. Nevertheless it is known that solutions with finite entropy productions have a

B V

-like structure: a rectifiable jump set of dimension one can be identified, outside which

u

has vanishing mean oscillation at all points. But it is not known whether all points outside this jump set are Lebesgue points, as they would be for

B V

solutions. In the present article we show that the set of non-Lebesgue points of

u

has Hausdorff dimension at most one. In contrast with the aforementioned structure result, we need only one particular entropy production to be a finite Radon measure, namely

m u = p a r t i a l_{t} (u^{2} / 2) + p a r t i a l_{x} (u^{3} / 3)

. We prove H"older regularity at points where

m u

has finite

(1 + a l p h a)

-dimensional upper density for some

a l p h a > 0

. The proof is inspired by a result of De Lellis, Westdickenberg and the second author : if

m u_{+}

has vanishing 1-dimensional upper density, then

u

is an entropy solution. We obtain a quantitative version of this statement: if

m u_{+}

is small then

u

is close in

L^{1}

to an entropy solution.

Review text

The authors study weak solutions \(u=u(t,x)\) to Burgers' equation \(\partial_t u+\partial_x(u^2/2)=0\) with the finite entropy production measure \(\mu=\partial_t(u^2/2)+\partial_x(u^3/3)\). The authors prove that the set of non-Lebesgue points of \(u\) has Hausdorff dimension at most one. Moreover, this solution was shown to be Hölder continuous on the set of points where \(\mu\) has finite \((1+\alpha)\)-dimensional upper density for some \(\alpha>0\). For the proof, the authors demonstrate that \(L^1\)-distance from \(u\) to the set of entropy solutions vanishes as \(\mu_+\to 0\).

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