Invariance Property of a Conservation Law without Convexity

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to investigate the mechanism of a conservation law that gives the N-wave like asymptotics. It turns out that the positivity of the flux function provides a certain invariance of solution which singles out the right asymptotics among two parameter family of N-waves. Two kinds of long time asymptotic convergence orders in L(1)-norm to this N-wave are proved using a potential comparison technique. The first one is of the magnitude of the N-wave itself and the second one is of order 1/t. We observe that these asymptotic convergence orders are related to space and time translations of potentials.