%0 Journal Article %J SIAM J. Math. Anal. 36 (2004) 659-677 %D 2004 %T A sharp decay estimate for positive nonlinear waves %A Alberto Bressan %A Tong Yang %X 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. %B SIAM J. Math. Anal. 36 (2004) 659-677 %I SIAM %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2916 %1 1784 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2008-09-11T13:37:38Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\nmath.AP0307140.pdf: 167236 bytes, checksum: 9e7a6fecd3de67843ca5c73f13bd841d (MD5) %R 10.1137/S0036141003427774