%0 Journal Article %J Communications in Mathematical Physics %D 2015 %T Quadratic Interaction Functional for General Systems of Conservation Laws %A Stefano Bianchini %A Stefano Modena %X

For the Glimm scheme approximation to the solution of the system of conservation laws in one space dimension with initial data u 0 with small total variation, we prove a quadratic (w.r.t. Tot. Var. ( u 0)) interaction estimate, which has been used in the literature for stability and convergence results. No assumptions on the structure of the flux f are made (apart from smoothness), and this estimate is the natural extension of the Glimm type interaction estimate for genuinely nonlinear systems. More precisely, we obtain the following results: a new analysis of the interaction estimates of simple waves;

%B Communications in Mathematical Physics %V 338 %P 1075–1152 %G eng %R 10.1007/s00220-015-2372-2