TY - RPRT T1 - On the structure of $L^\infty$-entropy solutions to scalar conservation laws in one-space dimension Y1 - 2016 A1 - Stefano Bianchini A1 - Elio Marconi AB -

We prove that if $u$ is the entropy solution to a scalar conservation law in one space dimension, then the entropy dissipation is a measure concentrated on countably many Lipschitz curves. This result is a consequence of a detailed analysis of the structure of the characteristics. In particular the characteristic curves are segments outside a countably 1-rectifiable set and the left and right traces of the solution exist in a $C^0$-sense up to the degeneracy due to the segments where $f''=0$. We prove also that the initial data is taken in a suitably strong sense and we give some counterexamples which show that these results are sharp.

PB - SISSA UR - http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35209 U1 - 35508 U2 - Mathematics U5 - MAT/05 ER -