# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

October  2012, 32(10): 3501-3524. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2012.32.3501

## Formation of singularities to quasi-linear hyperbolic systems with initial data of small BV norm

 1 Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China

Received  May 2011 Revised  November 2011 Published  May 2012

In this paper, we investigate the formation of singularities of the classical solution to the Cauchy problem of quasi-linear hyperbolic system and give a sharp limit formula for the lifespan of the classical solution. It is important that we only require that the initial data are sufficiently small in the $L^1$ sense and the BV sense.
Citation: Wen-Rong Dai. Formation of singularities to quasi-linear hyperbolic systems with initial data of small BV norm. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2012, 32 (10) : 3501-3524. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2012.32.3501
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