Type: Article
Publication Date: 2014-12-01
Citations: 26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219891614500209
We obtain new fine properties of entropy solutions to scalar nonlinear conservation laws. For this purpose, we study the "fractional BV spaces" denoted by BV s (ℝ) (for 0 < s ≤ 1), which were introduced by Love and Young in 1937 and closely related to the critical Sobolev space W s,1/s (ℝ). We investigate these spaces in connection with one-dimensional scalar conservation laws. The BV s spaces allow one to work with less regular functions than BV functions and appear to be more natural in this context. We obtain a stability result for entropy solutions with BV s initial data. Furthermore, for the first time, we get the maximal W s,p smoothing effect conjectured by Lions, Perthame and Tadmor for all nonlinear (possibly degenerate) convex fluxes.