The quasilinear-part conjecture for viscous conservation laws

Consider a scalar conservation law with viscosity, written in the form

ut=x[u2+ϵa(u)ux+ϵ2b1(u)uxx+ϵ3c1(u)uxxx+ϵ4d1(u)u4x+ϵ5e1(u)u5x+O(ϵ6)+],u_t=\partial_x\left[u^2+\epsilon a(u)u_x+\epsilon^2b_1(u)u_{xx}+\epsilon^3c_1(u)u_{xxx}+\epsilon^4d_1(u)u_{4x}+\epsilon^5e_1(u)u_{5x}+\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^6)+\cdots\right],

where a(u)a(u) is the coefficient of the first-order viscous term. The function a(u)a(u) is called the viscous central invariant.

Quasilinear-part conjecture. The quasilinear part of a viscous conservation law is uniquely determined by a(u)a(u).

The source motivates this conjecture from a classification theorem valid through finite order in ϵ\epsilon, where the higher displayed coefficients are determined by a(u)a(u). It does not state that the all-orders claim has been proved.

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Primary source

Alessandro Arsie, Paolo Lorenzoni and Antonio Moro, “On integrable conservation laws”, arXiv:1401.1166 (2014).

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