Convergence rates of the front tracking method for conservation laws in the Wasserstein distances

Abstract: We prove that front tracking approximations to entropy solutions of scalar conservation laws with convex fluxes converge at a rate of

D e l t a x^{2}

in the 1-Wasserstein distance

W_{1}

. Assuming positive initial data, we also show that the approximations converge at a rate of

D e l t a x

in the

i n f t y

-Wasserstein distance

W_{i} n f t y

. Moreover, from a simple interpolation inequality between

W_{1}

and

W_{i} n f t y

we obtain convergence rates in all the

p

-Wasserstein distances:

D e l t a x^{1 + 1 / p}

,

p i n [1, i n f t y]

.

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