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Decay of solutions of systems of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws

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James Glimm and Peter D. Lax

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1970; Number 101
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-1801-5 (print); 978-0-8218-9891-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0101
MathSciNet review: 0265767

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • 1. The widening of rarefaction waves
  • 2. Approximate conservation laws and approximate characteristics
  • 3. The construction of exact solutions as a limit of approximate solutions
  • 4. The spreading and cancellation of rarefaction waves
  • 5. The existence and decay of solutions with arbitrary Cauchy data near a constant state