Existence of BV solutions for $2\times2$ hyperbolic balance laws for $L^\infty$ initial data

Abstract

We prove the existence of BV solutions for $2\times 2$ system of hyperbolic balance laws in one space dimension. The flux is assumed to have two genuinely nonlinear characteristic fields. We consider a general force which may possibly depend on time and space variable as well. To prove the existence, we assume the initial data to be small in $L^\infty$. Furthermore, we also study qualitative behavior for entropy solutions to hyperbolic system of balance laws.