Multidimensional nonlinear geometric optics for transport operators with applications to stable shock formation

DOI10.2140/PAA.2019.1.447MaRDI QIDQ2327894zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jared Speck

Publication date 8 October 2019

Published in Pure and Applied Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04509

zbMATH Keywords

characteristicseikonal equationeikonal functionnonlinear quasilinear transport equationquasilinear symmetric hyperbolic subsystemsimple wavestable blowupvector field methodwave breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) Initial value problems for first-order hyperbolic systems (35L45) First-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L60) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67)

Abstract: In $ngeq1$ spatial dimensions, we study the Cauchy problem for a quasilinear transport equation coupled to a quasilinear symmetric hyperbolic subsystem of a rather general type. For an open set (relative to a suitable Sobolev topology) of regular initial data that are close to the data of a simple plane wave, we give a sharp, constructive proof of shock formation in which the transport variable remains bounded but its first-order Cartesian coordinate partial derivatives blow up in finite time. Moreover, we prove that the singularity does not propagate into the symmetric hyperbolic variables: they and their first-order Cartesian coordinate partial derivatives remain bounded, even though they interact with the transport variable all the way up to its singularity. The formation of the singularity is tied to the finite-time degeneration, relative to the Cartesian coordinates, of a system of geometric coordinates adapted to the characteristics of the transport operator. Two crucial features of the proof are that relative to the geometric coordinates, all solution variables remain smooth, and that the finite-time degeneration coincides with the intersection of the characteristics. Compared to prior shock formation results in more than one spatial dimension, in which the blowup occurred in solutions to wave equations, the main new features of the present work are: i) we develop a theory of nonlinear geometric optics for transport operators, which is compatible with the coupling and which allows us to implement a quasilinear geometric vectorfield method, even though the regularity properties of the corresponding eikonal function are less favorable compared to the wave equation case and ii) we allow for a full quasilinear coupling, i.e., the principal coefficients in all equations are allowed to depend on all solution variables.

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