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Contractive metrics for scalar conservation laws

F. Bolley, Y. Brenier, G. Loeper

math.AParXiv:math/0504136

Abstract

We consider nondecreasing entropy solutions to 1-d scalar conservation laws and show that the spatial derivatives of such solutions satisfy a contraction property with respect to the Wasserstein distance of any order. This result extends the L1-contraction property shown by Kruzkov.

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