Frontiers in Mathematical Sciences


TITLE  
Markovian Solutions to Scalar Conservation Laws


SPEAKER  
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou
University of California, Berkeley





ABSTRACT

According to a classical result of Bertoin (1998), if the initial data for Burgers equation is a Levy Process with no positive jump, then the same is true at later times and there is an explicit equation for the evolution of the associated Levy measures. In 2010, Menon and Srinivasan published a conjecture for the statistical structure of solutions to scalar conservation laws with certain Markov initial conditions, proposing a kinetic equation that should suffice to describe the solution as a stochastic process in $x$ with $t$ fixed (or in $t$ with $x$ fixed). In a joint work with Dave Kaspar, we have been able to establish this conjecture. Our argument uses a particle system representation of solutions.