@conference {10.1007/978-1-4419-9554-4_10, title = {The Monge Problem in Geodesic Spaces}, booktitle = {Nonlinear Conservation Laws and Applications}, year = {2011}, pages = {217{\textendash}233}, publisher = {Springer US}, organization = {Springer US}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

We address the Monge problem in metric spaces with a geodesic distance: (X, d) is a Polish non branching geodesic space. We show that we can reduce the transport problem to 1-dimensional transport problems along geodesics. We introduce an assumption on the transport problem π which implies that the conditional probabilities of the first marginal on each geodesic are continuous. It is known that this regularity is sufficient for the construction of an optimal transport map.

}, isbn = {978-1-4419-9554-4}, author = {Stefano Bianchini and Fabio Cavalletti}, editor = {Alberto Bressan and Chen, Gui-Qiang G. and Marta Lewicka and Wang, Dehua} } @article {2009, title = {On the convergence of viscous approximations after shock interactions}, journal = {Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 23 (2009) 29-48}, year = {2009}, publisher = {American Institute of Mathematical Sciences}, abstract = {We consider a piecewise smooth solution to a scalar conservation law, with possibly interacting shocks. We show that, after the interactions have taken place, vanishing viscosity approximations can still be represented by a regular expansion on smooth regions and by a singular perturbation expansion near the shocks, in terms of powers of the viscosity coefficient.}, doi = {10.3934/dcds.2009.23.29}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3412}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Carlotta Donadello} } @article {2007, title = {Asymptotic variational wave equations}, journal = {Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 183 (2007) 163-185}, number = {arXiv.org;math/0502124v1}, year = {2007}, abstract = {We investigate the equation $(u_t + (f(u))_x)_x = f\\\'\\\'(u) (u_x)^2/2$ where $f(u)$ is a given smooth function. Typically $f(u)= u^2/2$ or $u^3/3$. This equation models unidirectional and weakly nonlinear waves for the variational wave equation $u_{tt} - c(u) (c(u)u_x)_x =0$ which models some liquid crystals with a natural sinusoidal $c$. The equation itself is also the Euler-Lagrange equation of a variational problem. Two natural classes of solutions can be associated with this equation. A conservative solution will preserve its energy in time, while a dissipative weak solution loses energy at the time when singularities appear. Conservative solutions are globally defined, forward and backward in time, and preserve interesting geometric features, such as the Hamiltonian structure. On the other hand, dissipative solutions appear to be more natural from the physical point of view.\\nWe establish the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem within the class of conservative solutions, for initial data having finite energy and assuming that the flux function $f$ has Lipschitz continuous second-order derivative. In the case where $f$ is convex, the Cauchy problem is well-posed also within the class of dissipative solutions. However, when $f$ is not convex, we show that the dissipative solutions do not depend continuously on the initial data.}, doi = {10.1007/s00205-006-0014-8}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2182}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Zhang Ping and Zheng Yuxi} } @article {2007, title = {BV instability for the Lax-Friedrichs scheme}, number = {SISSA;100/2004/M}, year = {2007}, abstract = {It is proved that discrete shock profiles (DSPs) for the Lax-Friedrichs scheme for a system of conservation laws do not necessarily depend continuously in BV on their speed. We construct examples of $2 \\\\times 2$-systems for which there are sequences of DSPs with speeds converging to a rational number. Due to a resonance phenomenon, the difference between the limiting DSP and any DSP in the sequence will contain an order-one amount of variation.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2335}, author = {Paolo Baiti and Alberto Bressan and Helge Kristian Jenssen} } @article {2007, title = {Nearly time optimal stabilizing patchy feedbacks}, journal = {Ann. Inst. H. Poincare Anal. Non Lineaire 24 (2007) 279-310}, number = {arXiv.org;math/0512531v1}, year = {2007}, abstract = {We consider the time optimal stabilization problem for a nonlinear control system $\\\\dot x=f(x,u)$. Let $\\\\tau(y)$ be the minimum time needed to steer the system from the state $y\\\\in\\\\R^n$ to the origin, and call $\\\\A(T)$ the set of initial states that can be steered to the origin in time $\\\\tau(y)\\\\leq T$. Given any $\\\\ve>0$, in this paper we construct a patchy feedback $u=U(x)$ such that every solution of $\\\\dot x=f(x, U(x))$, $x(0)=y\\\\in \\\\A(T)$ reaches an $\\\\ve$-neighborhood of the origin within time $\\\\tau(y)+\\\\ve$.}, doi = {10.1016/j.anihpc.2006.03.010}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2185}, author = {Fabio Ancona and Alberto Bressan} } @article {2006, title = {Conservative Solutions to a Nonlinear Variational Wave Equation}, journal = {Comm. Math. Phys. 266 (2006) 471-497}, number = {arXiv.org;math/0502058v1}, year = {2006}, abstract = {We establish the existence of a conservative weak solution to the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear variational wave equation $u_{tt} - c(u)(c(u)u_x)_x=0$, for initial data of finite energy. Here $c(\\\\cdot)$ is any smooth function with uniformly positive bounded values.}, doi = {10.1007/s00220-006-0047-8}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2184}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Zheng Yuxi} } @article {2006, title = {Infinite Horizon Noncooperative Differential Games}, number = {SISSA;31/2005/M}, year = {2006}, abstract = {For a non-cooperative differential game, the value functions of the various players satisfy a system of Hamilton-Jacobi equations. In the present paper, we consider a class of infinite-horizon games with nonlinear costs exponentially discounted in time. By the analysis of the value\\nfunctions, we establish the existence of Nash equilibrium solutions in feedback form and provide results and counterexamples on their uniqueness and stability.}, doi = {10.1016/j.jde.2006.01.005}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1720}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Fabio Simone Priuli} } @article {2006, title = {An instability of the Godunov scheme}, journal = {Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 59 (2006) 1604-1638}, number = {arXiv.org;math/0502125v1}, year = {2006}, abstract = {We construct a solution to a $2\\\\times 2$ strictly hyperbolic system of conservation laws, showing that the Godunov scheme \\\\cite{Godunov59} can produce an arbitrarily large amount of oscillations. This happens when the speed of a shock is close to rational, inducing a resonance with the grid. Differently from the Glimm scheme or the vanishing viscosity method, for systems of conservation laws our counterexample indicates that no a priori BV bounds or $L^1$ stability estimates can in general be valid for finite difference schemes.}, doi = {10.1002/cpa.20141}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2183}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Helge Kristian Jenssen and Paolo Baiti} } @article {2005, title = {On the Blow-up for a Discrete Boltzmann Equation in the Plane}, journal = {Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 13 (2005) 1-12}, number = {arXiv.org;math/0403047v2}, year = {2005}, abstract = {We study the possibility of finite-time blow-up for a two dimensional Broadwell model. In a set of rescaled variables, we prove that no self-similar blow-up solution exists, and derive some a priori bounds on the blow-up rate. In the final section, a possible blow-up scenario is discussed.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2244}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Massimo Fonte} } @article {2005, title = {Global solutions of the Hunter-Saxton equation}, journal = {SIAM J. Math. Anal. 37 (2005) 996-1026}, number = {SISSA;104/2004/M}, year = {2005}, abstract = {We construct a continuous semigroup of weak, dissipative solutions to a nonlinear partial differential equations modeling nematic liquid crystals. A new distance functional, determined by a problem of optimal transportation, yields sharp estimates on the continuity of solutions with respect to the initial data.}, doi = {10.1137/050623036}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2256}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Adrian Constantin} } @article {2005, title = {An Optimal Transportation Metric for Solutions of the Camassa-Holm Equation}, number = {SISSA;27/2005/M}, year = {2005}, abstract = {In this paper we construct a global, continuous flow of solutions to the Camassa-Holm equation on the entire space H1. Our solutions are conservative, in the sense that the total energy int[(u2 + u2x) dx] remains a.e. constant in time. Our new approach is based on a distance functional J(u, v), defined in terms of an optimal transportation problem, which satisfies d dtJ(u(t), v(t)) <= κ {\textperiodcentered} J(u(t), v(t)) for every couple of solutions. Using this new distance functional, we can construct arbitrary solutions as the uniform limit of multi-peakon solutions, and prove a general uniqueness result.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1719}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Massimo Fonte} } @article {2005, title = {Vanishing viscosity solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic systems}, journal = {Ann. of Math. 161 (2005) 223-342}, number = {SISSA;86/2001/M}, year = {2005}, publisher = {Annals of Mathematics}, abstract = {We consider the Cauchy problem for a strictly hyperbolic, $n\\\\times n$ system in one space dimension: $u_t+A(u)u_x=0$, assuming that the initial data has small total variation.\\nWe show that the solutions of the viscous approximations $u_t+A(u)u_x=\\\\ve u_{xx}$ are defined globally in time and satisfy uniform BV estimates, independent of $\\\\ve$. Moreover, they depend continuously on the initial data in the $\\\\L^1$ distance, with a Lipschitz constant independent of $t,\\\\ve$. Letting $\\\\ve\\\\to 0$, these viscous solutions converge to a unique limit, depending Lipschitz continuously on the initial data. In the conservative case where $A=Df$ is the Jacobian of some flux function $f:\\\\R^n\\\\mapsto\\\\R^n$, the vanishing viscosity limits are precisely the unique entropy weak solutions to the system of conservation laws $u_t+f(u)_x=0$.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3074}, author = {Stefano Bianchini and Alberto Bressan} } @article {2004, title = {On the convergence rate of vanishing viscosity approximations}, journal = {Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 57 (2004) 1075-1109}, number = {SISSA;60/2003/M}, year = {2004}, publisher = {Wiley}, abstract = {Given a strictly hyperbolic, genuinely nonlinear system of conservation laws, we prove the a priori bound $\\\\big\\\\|u(t,\\\\cdot)-u^\\\\ve(t,\\\\cdot)\\\\big\\\\|_{\\\\L^1}= \\\\O(1)(1+t)\\\\cdot \\\\sqrt\\\\ve|\\\\ln\\\\ve|$ on the distance between an exact BV solution $u$ and a viscous approximation $u^\\\\ve$, letting the viscosity coefficient $\\\\ve\\\\to 0$. In the proof, starting from $u$ we construct an approximation of the viscous solution $u^\\\\ve$ by taking a mollification $u*\\\\phi_{\\\\strut \\\\sqrt\\\\ve}$ and inserting viscous shock profiles at the locations of finitely many large shocks, for each fixed $\\\\ve$. Error estimates are then obtained by introducing new Lyapunov functionals which control shock interactions, interactions between waves of different families and by using sharp decay estimates for positive nonlinear waves.}, doi = {10.1002/cpa.20030}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2915}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Tong Yang} } @article {2004, title = {Semi-cooperative strategies for differential games}, journal = {Internat. J. Game Theory 32 (2004) 561-593}, number = {SISSA;103/2003/M}, year = {2004}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {The paper is concerned with a non-cooperative differential game for two players. We first consider Nash equilibrium solutions in feedback form. In this case, we show that the Cauchy problem for the value functions is generically ill-posed. Looking at vanishing viscosity approximations, one can construct special solutions in the form of chattering controls, but these also appear to be unstable. In the second part of the paper we propose an alternative \\\"semi-cooperative\\\" pair of strategies for the two players, seeking a Pareto optimum instead of a Nash equilibrium. In this case, we prove that the corresponding Hamiltonian system for the value functions is always weakly hyperbolic.}, doi = {10.1007/s001820400180}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2893}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Wen Shen} } @article {2004, title = {A sharp decay estimate for positive nonlinear waves}, journal = {SIAM J. Math. Anal. 36 (2004) 659-677}, number = {SISSA;59/2003/M}, year = {2004}, publisher = {SIAM}, abstract = {We consider a strictly hyperbolic, genuinely nonlinear system of conservation laws in one space dimension. A sharp decay estimate is proved for the positive waves in an entropy weak solution. The result is stated in terms of a partial ordering among positive measures, using symmetric rearrangements and a comparison with a solution of Burgers\\\' equation with impulsive sources.}, doi = {10.1137/S0036141003427774}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2916}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Tong Yang} } @article {2004, title = {Small BV solutions of hyperbolic noncooperative differential games}, journal = {SIAM J. Control Optim. 43 (2004) 194-215}, number = {SISSA;21/2003/M}, year = {2004}, publisher = {SIAM}, abstract = {The paper is concerned with an n-persons differential game in one space dimension. We state conditions for which the system of Hamilton-Jacobi equations for the value functions is strictly hyperbolic. In the positive case, we show that the weak solution of a corresponding system of conservation laws determines an n-tuple of feedback strategies. These yield a Nash equilibrium solution to the non-cooperative differential game.}, doi = {10.1137/S0363012903425581}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2917}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Wen Shen} } @article {2004, title = {Some remarks on multidimensional systems of conservation laws}, journal = {Rend. Mat. Acc. Lincei, s. 9, v. 15 (2004) 3-4, pp. 225 - 233}, year = {2004}, publisher = {Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei}, abstract = {This note is concerned with the Cauchy problem for hyperbolic systems of conservation\\nlaws in several space dimensions. We first discuss an example of ill-posedness, for a special system\\nhaving a radial symmetry property. Some conjectures are formulated, on the compactness of the set of\\nflow maps generated by vector fields with bounded variation.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3642}, author = {Alberto Bressan} } @article {2004, title = {Stability rates for patchy vector fields}, journal = {ESAIM COCV 10 (2004) 168-200}, number = {arXiv.org;math/0111109v1}, year = {2004}, publisher = {EDP Sciences}, abstract = {This paper is concerned with the stability of the set of trajectories of a patchy vector field, in the presence of impulsive perturbations. Patchy vector fields are discontinuous, piecewise smooth vector fields that were introduced in Ancona and Bressan (1999) to study feedback stabilization problems. For patchy vector fields in the plane, with polygonal patches in generic position, we show that the distance between a perturbed trajectory and an unperturbed one is of the same order of magnitude as the impulsive forcing term.}, doi = {10.1051/cocv:2004003}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2959}, author = {Fabio Ancona and Alberto Bressan} } @article {2003, title = {An ill posed Cauchy problem for a hyperbolic system in two space dimensions}, number = {SISSA;12/2003/M}, year = {2003}, publisher = {Universit{\`a} di Padova}, abstract = {The theory of weak solutions for nonlinear conservation laws is now well developed in the case of scalar equations [3] and for one-dimensional hyperbolic systems [1, 2]. For systems in several space dimensions, however, even the global existence of solutions to the Cauchy problem remains a challenging open question. In this note we construct a conterexample showing that, even for a simple class of hyperbolic systems, in two space dimensions the Cauchy problem can be ill posed.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2913}, author = {Alberto Bressan} } @article {2003, title = {A lemma and a conjecture on the cost of rearrangements}, journal = {Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova 110 (2003) 97-102}, number = {SISSA;13/2003/M}, year = {2003}, publisher = {Universit{\`a} di Padova}, abstract = {Consider a stack of books, containing both white and black books. Suppose that we want to sort them out, putting the white books on the right, and the black books on the left (fig.~1). This will be done by a finite sequence of elementary transpositions. In other words, if we have a stack of all black books of length $a$ followed by a stack of all white books of length $b$, we are allowed to reverse their order at the cost of $a+b$. We are interested in a lower bound on the total cost of the rearrangement.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2914}, author = {Alberto Bressan} } @article {2003, title = {Some results on the boundary control of systems of conservation laws}, journal = {SIAM J.Control Optim. 41 (2003),no.2, 607}, number = {SISSA;44/2002/M}, year = {2003}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, doi = {10.1137/S0363012901392529}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1615}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Fabio Ancona and Giuseppe Maria Coclite} } @article {2002, title = {On the Boundary Control of Systems of Conservation Laws}, journal = {SIAM J. Control Optim. 41 (2002) 607-622}, number = {SISSA;50/2001/M}, year = {2002}, publisher = {SIAM}, abstract = {The paper is concerned with the boundary controllability of entropy weak solutions to hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. We prove a general result on the asymptotic stabilization of a system near a constant state. On the other hand, we give an example showing that exact controllability in finite time cannot be achieved, in general.}, doi = {10.1137/S0363012901392529}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3070}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Giuseppe Maria Coclite} } @article {2002, title = {A center manifold technique for tracing viscous waves}, journal = {Commun. Pure Appl. Anal. 1 (2002) 161-190}, number = {SISSA;85/2001/M}, year = {2002}, publisher = {American Institute of Mathematical Sciences}, abstract = {In this paper we introduce a new technique for tracing viscous travelling profiles. To illustrate the method, we consider a special 2 x 2 hyperbolic system of conservation laws with viscosity, and show that any solution can be locally decomposed as the sum of 2 viscous travelling profiles. This yields the global existence, stability and uniform BV bounds for every solution with suitably small BV data.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3075}, author = {Stefano Bianchini and Alberto Bressan} } @article {2002, title = {Flow Stability of Patchy Vector Fields and Robust Feedback Stabilization}, journal = {SIAM J. Control Optim. 41 (2002) 1455-1476}, number = {SISSA;71/2001/M}, year = {2002}, publisher = {SIAM}, abstract = {The paper is concerned with patchy vector fields, a class of discontinuous, piecewise smooth vector fields that were introduced in AB to study feedback stabilization problems. We prove the stability of the corresponding solution set w.r.t. a wide class of impulsive perturbations. These results yield the robusteness of patchy feedback controls in the presence of measurement errors and external disturbances.}, doi = {10.1137/S0363012901391676}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3073}, author = {Fabio Ancona and Alberto Bressan} } @article {2002, title = {On a Lyapunov functional relating shortening curves and viscous conservation laws}, journal = {Nonlinear Anal. 51 (2002) 649-662}, number = {SISSA;123/99/M}, year = {2002}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {We study a nonlinear functional which controls the area swept by a curve moving in the plane in the direction of curvature. In turn, this yields a priori estimates on solutions to a class of parabolic equations and of scalar viscous conservation laws. A further application provides an estimate on the \\\"change of shape\\\" of a BV solution to a scalar conservation law.}, doi = {10.1016/S0362-546X(01)00848-3}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1337}, author = {Stefano Bianchini and Alberto Bressan} } @article {2001, title = {A case study in vanishing viscosity}, journal = {Discrete Cont. Dyn. Syst. 7 (2001) 449-476}, year = {2001}, publisher = {American Institute of Mathematical Sciences}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3091}, author = {Stefano Bianchini and Alberto Bressan} } @article {2000, title = {BV estimates for multicomponent chromatography with relaxation}, journal = {Discrete Contin. Dynam. Systems 6 (2000) 21-38}, number = {SISSA;122/99/M}, year = {2000}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, abstract = {We consider the Cauchy problem for a system of $2n$ balance laws which arises from the modelling of multi-component chromatography: $$\\\\left\\\\{ \\\\eqalign{u_t+u_x\&=-{1\\\\over\\\\ve}\\\\big( F(u)-v\\\\big),\\\\cr v_t\&={1\\\\over\\\\ve}\\\\big( F(u)-v\\\\big),\\\\cr}\\\\right. \\\\eqno(1)$$ This model describes a liquid flowing with unit speed over a solid bed. Several chemical substances are partly dissolved in the liquid, partly deposited on the solid bed. Their concentrations are represented respectively by the vectors $u=(u_1,\\\\ldots,u_n)$ and $v=(v_1,\\\\ldots,v_n)$. We show that, if the initial data have small total variation, then the solution of (1) remains with small variation for all times $t\\\\geq 0$. Moreover, using the $\\\\L^1$ distance, this solution depends Lipschitz continuously on the initial data, with a Lipschitz constant uniform w.r.t.~$\\\\ve$. Finally we prove that as $\\\\ve\\\\to 0$, the solutions of (1) converge to a limit described by the system $$\\\\big(u+F(u)\\\\big)_t+u_x=0,\\\\qquad\\\\qquad v=F(u).\\\\eqno(2)$$ The proof of the uniform BV estimates relies on the application of probabilistic techniques. It is shown that the components of the gradients $v_x,u_x$ can be interpreted as densities of random particles travelling with speed 0 or 1. The amount of coupling between different components is estimated in terms of the expected number of crossing of these random particles. This provides a first example where BV estimates are proved for general solutions to a class of $2n\\\\times 2n$ systems with relaxation.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1336}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Wen Shen} } @article {2000, title = {BV solutions for a class of viscous hyperbolic systems}, journal = {Indiana Univ. Math. J. 49 (2000) 1673-1714}, year = {2000}, publisher = {Indiana University Mathematics Journal}, doi = {10.1512/iumj.2000.49.1776}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3194}, author = {Stefano Bianchini and Alberto Bressan} } @article {2000, title = {On the convergence of Godunov scheme for nonlinear hyperbolic systems}, journal = {Chinese Ann. Math. B, 2000, 21, 269}, number = {SISSA;15/00/M}, year = {2000}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1473}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Helge Kristian Jenssen} } @article {2000, title = {Stability of L^infty Solutions of Temple Class Systems}, journal = {Differential Integral Equations 13 (2000) 1503-1528}, number = {SISSA;134/98/M}, year = {2000}, publisher = {Khayyam Publishing}, abstract = {

Let $u_t+f(u)_x=0$ be a strictly hyperbolic, genuinely nonlinear system of conservation laws of Temple class. In this paper, a continuous semigroup of solutions is constructed on a domain of $L^\infty$ functions, with possibly unbounded variation. Trajectories depend Lipschitz continuously on the initial data, in the $L^1$ distance. Moreover, we show that a weak solution of the Cauchy problem coincides with the corresponding semigroup trajectory if and only if it satisfies an entropy condition of Oleinik type, concerning the decay of positive waves.

}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3256}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Paola Goatin} } @article {2000, title = {A Uniqueness Condition for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws}, journal = {Discrete Contin. Dynam. Systems 6 (2000) 673-682}, number = {SISSA;88/98/M}, year = {2000}, publisher = {American Institute of Mathematical Sciences}, abstract = {Consider the Cauchy problem for a hyperbolic $n\\\\times n$ system of conservation laws in one space dimension: $$u_t+f(u)_x=0, u(0,x)=\\\\bar u(x).\\\\eqno(CP)$$ Relying on the existence of a continuous semigroup of solutions, we prove that the entropy admissible solution of (CP) is unique within the class of functions $u=u(t,x)$ which have bounded variation along a suitable family of space-like curves.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3195}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Marta Lewicka} } @book {2000, title = {Well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for n x n systems of conservation laws}, series = {Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 146 (2000), no. 694, 134 p.}, number = {SISSA;184/96/M}, year = {2000}, note = {Chapter 1 and 2}, publisher = {American Mathematical Society}, organization = {American Mathematical Society}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3495}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Graziano Crasta and Benedetto Piccoli} } @article {1999, title = {Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws}, journal = {Rev. Mat. Complut. 12 (1999) 135-200}, year = {1999}, abstract = {This is a survey paper, written in the occasion of an invited talk given by the author at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, October 1998. Its purpose is to provide an account of some recent advances in the mathematical theory of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws in one space dimension. After a brief review of basic concepts, we describe in detail the method of wave-front tracking approximation and present some of the latest results on uniqueness and stability of entropy weak solutions.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1855}, author = {Alberto Bressan} } @article {1999, title = {L-1 stability estimates for n x n conservation laws}, journal = {Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 149 (1999), no. 1, 1--22}, number = {SISSA;80/98/M}, year = {1999}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {Let $u_t+f(u)_x=0$ be a strictly hyperbolic $n\\\\times n$ system of conservation laws, each characteristic field being linearly degenerate or genuinely nonlinear. In this paper we explicitly define a functional $\\\\Phi=\\\\Phi(u,v)$, equivalent to the $L^1$ distance, which is {\textquoteleft}almost decreasing\\\', i.e., $\\\\Phi(u(t),v(t))-\\\\Phi(u(s),v(s))\\\\leq\\\\break O (\\\\epsilon){\textperiodcentered}(t-s)$ for all $t>s\\\\geq 0$, for every pair of $\\\\epsilon$-approximate solutions $u,v$ with small total variation, generated by a wave-front-tracking algorithm. The small parameter $\\\\epsilon$ here controls the errors in the wave speeds, the maximum size of rarefaction fronts and the total strength of all non-physical waves in $u$ and in $v$. From the above estimate, it follows that front-tracking approximations converge to a unique limit solution, depending Lipschitz continuously on the initial data, in the $L^1$ norm. This provides a new proof of the existence of the standard Riemann semigroup generated by an $n\\\\times n$ system of conservation laws.\\\'\\\'}, doi = {10.1007/s002050050165}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3373}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Tai-Ping Liu and Tong Yang} } @article {1999, title = {Oleinik type estimates and uniqueness for n x n conservation laws}, journal = {J. Differential Equations 156 (1999), no. 1, 26--49}, number = {SISSA;150/97/M}, year = {1999}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {Let $u_t+f(u)_x=0$ be a strictly hyperbolic $n\\\\times n$ system of conservation laws in one space dimension. Relying on the existence of a semigroup of solutions, we first establish the uniqueness of entropy admissible weak solutions to the Cauchy problem, under a mild assumption on the local oscillation of $u$ in a forward neighborhood of each point in the $t\\\\text{-}x$ plane. In turn, this yields the uniqueness of weak solutions which satisfy a decay estimate on positive waves of genuinely nonlinear families, thus extending a classical result proved by Oleinik in the scalar case.}, doi = {10.1006/jdeq.1998.3606}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3375}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Paola Goatin} } @article {1999, title = {Structural stability and regularity of entropy solutions to hyperbolic systems of conservation laws}, journal = {Indiana Univ. Math. J. 48 (1999), no. 1, 43--84}, number = {SISSA;96/97/M}, year = {1999}, publisher = {Indiana University}, abstract = {The paper is concerned with the qualitative structure of entropy solutions to a strictly hyperbolic, genuinely nonlinear system of conservation laws. We first give an accurate description of the local and global wave-front structure of a BV solution, generated by a front tracking algorithm.}, doi = {10.1512/iumj.1999.48.1524}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3374}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Philippe G. LeFloch} } @article {1999, title = {Vanishing viscosity solutions of hyperbolic systems on manifolds}, number = {SISSA;24/99/M}, year = {1999}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1238}, author = {Stefano Bianchini and Alberto Bressan} } @article {1998, title = {Error bounds for a deterministic version of the Glimm scheme}, journal = {Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 142 (1998), no. 2, 155-176}, number = {SISSA;143/95/M}, year = {1998}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {Consider the hyperbolic system of conservation laws $u_t F(u)_x=0. Let $u$ be the unique viscosity solution with initial condition $u(0,x)=\\\\bar u(x)$ and let $u^\\\\varepsilon$ be an approximate solution constructed by the Glimm scheme, corresponding to the mesh sizes $\\\\Delta x,\\\\Delta t=O(\\\\Delta x). With a suitable choise of the sampling sequence, we prove the estimate $$ \\\\left\\\\Vert u^\\\\varepsilon(t,\\\\cdot)-u(t,\\\\cdot) \\\\right\\\\Vert_1=o(1)\\\\cdot\\\\sqrt{\\\\Delta x}\\\\vert\\\\ln\\\\Delta x\\\\vert. $$}, doi = {10.1007/s002050050088}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1045}, author = {Andrea Marson and Alberto Bressan} } @article {1998, title = {A generic classification of time-optimal planar stabilizing feedbacks}, journal = {SIAM J. Control Optim. 36 (1998) 12-32}, number = {SISSA;96/95/M}, year = {1998}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, abstract = {Consider the problem of stabilization at the origin in minimum time for a planar control system affine with respect to the control. For a family of generic vector fields, a topological equivalence relation on the corresponding time-optimal feedback synthesis was introduced in a previous paper [Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, 3 (1997), pp. 335--371]. The set of equivalence classes can be put in a one-to-one correspondence with a discrete family of graphs. This provides a classification of the global structure of generic time-optimal stabilizing feedbacks in the plane, analogous to the classification of smooth dynamical systems developed by Peixoto.}, doi = {10.1137/S0363012995291117}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/998}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Benedetto Piccoli} } @article {1998, title = {Uniqueness for discontinuous ODE and conservation laws}, journal = {Nonlinear Analysis 34 (1998) 637-652}, number = {SISSA;26/97/M}, year = {1998}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {Consider a scalar O.D.E. of the form $\\\\dot x=f(t,x),$ where $f$ is possibly discontinuous w.r.t. both variables $t,x$. Under suitable assumptions, we prove that the corresponding Cauchy problem admits a unique solution, which depends H\\\\\\\"older continuously on the initial data.\\nOur result applies in particular to the case where $f$ can be written in the form $f(t,x)\\\\doteq g\\\\big( u(t,x)\\\\big)$, for some function $g$ and some solution $u$ of a scalar conservation law, say $u_t+F(u)_x=0$. In turn, this yields the uniqueness and continuous dependence of solutions to a class of $2\\\\times 2$ strictly hyperbolic systems, with initial data in $\\\\L^\\\\infty$.}, doi = {10.1016/S0362-546X(97)00590-7}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3699}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Wen Shen} } @article {1997, title = {The semigroup generated by a temple class system with large data}, journal = {Differential Integral Equations 10 (1997), no. 3, 401-418}, number = {SISSA;121/95/M}, year = {1997}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, abstract = {We consider the Cauchy problem $$u_t + [F(u)]_x=0, u(0,x)=\\\\bar u(x) (*)$$ for a nonlinear $n\\\\times n$ system of conservation laws with coinciding shock and rarefaction curves. Assuming the existence of a coordinates system made of Riemann invariants, we prove the existence of a weak solution of (*) that depends in a lipschitz continuous way on the initial data, in the class of functions with arbitrarily large but bounded total variation.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1023}, author = {Paolo Baiti and Alberto Bressan} } @article {1997, title = {Shift-differentiability of the flow generated by a conservation law}, journal = {Discrete Contin. Dynam. Systems 3 (1997), no. 1, 35--58.}, number = {SISSA;131/95/M}, year = {1997}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, abstract = {The paper introduces a notion of \\\"shift-differentials\\\" for maps with values in the space BV. These differentials describe first order variations of a given functin $u$, obtained by horizontal shifts of the points of its graph. The flow generated by a scalar conservation law is proved to be generically shift-differentiable, according to the new definition.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1033}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Graziano Guerra} } @article {1997, title = {Structural stability for time-optimal planar sytheses}, journal = {Dynam. Contin. Discrete Impuls. Systems 3 (1997), no. 3, 335--371}, number = {SISSA;95/95/M}, year = {1997}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/997}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Benedetto Piccoli} } @article {1996, title = {The semigroup approach to systems of conservation laws}, journal = {Mat. Contemp. 10 (1996) 21-74}, number = {SISSA;135/95/M}, year = {1996}, publisher = {Sociedade Brasileira de Matematica}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1037}, author = {Alberto Bressan} } @article {1995, title = {Unique solutions of 2x2 conservation laws with large data}, journal = {Indiana Univ. Math. J. 44 (1995), no. 3, 677-725}, number = {SISSA;73/95/M}, year = {1995}, publisher = {Indiana University Mathematics Journal}, abstract = {For a 2x2 hyperbolic system of conservation laws, we first consider a Riemann problem with arbitrarily large data. A stability assumption is introduced, which yields the existence of a Lipschitz semigroup of solutions, defined on a domain containing all suitably small BV perturbations of the Riemann data. We then establish a uniqueness result for large BV solutions, valid within the same class of functions where a local existence theorem can be proved.}, doi = {10.1512/iumj.1995.44.2004}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/975}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Rinaldo M. Colombo} } @article {1991, title = {A class of absolute retracts of dwarf spheroidal galaxies}, journal = {Proc.Amer.Math.Soc. 112 (1991), no.2, 413}, number = {SISSA;79/89/M}, year = {1991}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/837}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Arrigo Cellina and Andrzej Fryszkowski} } @article {1990, title = {Existence and continuous dependence for discontinuous O.D.E.s}, journal = {Boll. Un. Mat. Ital. B (7) 4 (1990), no. 2, 295--311}, number = {SISSA;120/88/M}, year = {1990}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/716}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Giovanni Colombo} } @article {1989, title = {Upper semicontinuous differential inclusions without convexity}, journal = {Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 106 (1989), no. 3, 771-775}, number = {SISSA;74/88/M}, year = {1989}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/670}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Arrigo Cellina and Giovanni Colombo} } @article {1988, title = {On differential systems with vector-valued impulsive controls.}, journal = {Boll. Un. Mat. Ital. B (7) 2 (1988), no. 3, 641-656}, number = {SISSA;54/87/M}, year = {1988}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/535}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Franco Rampazzo} } @article {1988, title = {Generalized Baire category and differential inclusions in Banach spaces.}, journal = {J. Differential Equations 76 (1988), no. 1, 135-158.}, number = {SISSA;56/87/M}, year = {1988}, publisher = {SISSA Library}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/538}, author = {Alberto Bressan and Giovanni Colombo} }