ON THE WELL-POSEDNESS OF A FIRST ORDER

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION

A. CORONEL
A
AND F. HUANCAS
B
Abstract. In this work we study the existence, uniqueness and
continuous dependence of the solution with respect to the initial
data of a rst order ordinary dierential equation by applying the
conservation laws theory. We start by a critical review of the clas-
sical results of ODE theory in the case of smooth data. Then we
introduce the notion of solution in the sense of Filippov, when the
right hand side is a discontinuous function. We precise the type
of discontinuities which implies the well-posedness of the Cauchy
problem. We assume that the admissible discontinuities are related
with the solution of a scalar conservation law and we develop a new
proof of the well-posedness of Filippov solutions.
References
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laws, Nonlinear Analysis, 34 (1998), pp. 637652.
[2] A. F. Filippov, Dierential equations with discontinous right hand sides,
Kluwer Acad. Publ., (1988)
[3] A. Marson, Nonconvex conservation laws and ordinary dierential equations
J. London Math. Soc. (2) 69 (2004),pp 428440
a
Departamento de Ciencias Bsicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Univer-
sidad del Bo-Bo, Casilla 447, Campus Fernando May, Chilln, Chile.
e-mail: acoronel@roble.fdo-may.ubiobio.cl
b
Facultad de Ciencicas Fsicas y Matemticas, Escuela de Matemtica,
Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruz Gallo, Per.
E-mail: fihuanca@gmail.com
Date: July 29, 2009.
Submitted to the IX International Seminar in Optimization and Related
Areas, organized by IMCA (Instituto de Matemtica y Ciencias Anes), to be
held in Lima from October 05-09 of 2009. This research was partially supported by
research project FONDECYT 11060400 and Escuala de Matemtica of Universidad
Nacional Pedro Ruz Gallo.
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