Local limit of nonlocal traffic models: convergence results and total variation blow-up

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Abstract: Consider a nonlocal conservation where the flux function depends on the convolution of the solution with a given kernel. In the singular local limit obtained by letting the convolution kernel converge to the Dirac delta one formally recovers a conservation law. However, recent counter-examples show that in general the solutions of the nonlocal equations do not converge to a solution of the conservation law. In this work we focus on nonlocal conservation laws modeling vehicular traffic: in this case, the convolution kernel is anisotropic. We show that, under fairly general assumptions on the (anisotropic) convolution kernel, the nonlocal-to-local limit can be rigorously justified provided the initial datum satisfies a one-sided Lipschitz condition and is bounded away from 0. We also exhibit a counter-example showing that, if the initial datum attains the value 0, then there are severe obstructions to a convergence proof.


This paper deals with the nonlocal Cauchy problem \[ u_{\varepsilon,t}+(u_\varepsilon V(u_\varepsilon*\eta_\varepsilon))_x =0, \qquad u_\varepsilon(0,\cdot)=u_0, \] where \(u_\varepsilon\) is the unknown and \(V\) is a given Lipschitz continuous function. The convolution kernel \(\eta_\varepsilon\) defined as \[ \eta_\varepsilon(x) = \eta\left(\frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right)\frac{1}{\varepsilon}, \qquad x\in\mathbb{R}, \] where \[ \eta\ge0,\qquad \text{supp}(\eta)\subset(-\infty,0],\qquad \| \eta\|_{L^1}=1,\qquad \sup_{(-\infty,0)}\frac{\eta}{\eta'}<\infty. \] On the function \(V\) they assume that \[ V\in C^2,\qquad V\le0,\qquad V (u_{\max}) = 0,\qquad V '(u) \le -\delta\>\text{for every}\> u\in [0, u_{\max}] \] for some \(\delta,\,u_{\max}>0\). The authors prove that, as \(\varepsilon \to 0\), \(u_\varepsilon\) converges to the entropy solution of the Cauchy Problem \[ u_{t}+(u V(u))_x =0, \qquad u(0,\cdot)=u_0. \]




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