Asymptotic behavior of BV solutions to hyperbolic systems of balance laws with relaxation

Abstract

For hyperbolic systems of balance laws governing relaxation processes, in one space dimension, with source incurring nonnegative entropy production and satisfying a Kawashima-type condition, it is shown that when the initial data have small total variation on (-∞, ∞) and decay rapidly to zero, as |x| → ∞, then the Cauchy problem possesses a unique admissible BV solution, in the large, with total variation decaying to zero, as t → ∞.