Preprint 2014-014
No BV bounds for approximate solutions to p-system with general pressure law
Alberto Bressan, Geng Chen, Qingtian Zhang, and Shengguo Zhu
Abstract: For the p-system with large BV initial data, an assumption introduced in [3] by Bakhvalov guarantees the global existence of entropy weak solutions with uniformly bounded total variation. The present paper provides a partial converse to this result. Whenever Bakhvalov’s condition does not hold, we show that there exist front tracking approximate solutions, with uniformly positive density, whose total variation becomes arbitrarily large. The construction extends the arguments in [4] to a general class of pressure laws.
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[4] A. Bressan, G. Chen, and Q. Zhang, Lack of BV bounds for approximate solutions to the p-system with large data, J. Differential Equations 256 (2014), no. 8, 3067–3085 [MR3199757].