Stochastic perturbation and zero noise limit for scalar conservation laws

Abstract

Scalar conservation laws sit at the intersection between being simple enough to study analytically, while being complex enough to exhibit a wide range of nonlinear phenomena. We introduce a novel stochastic perturbation of scalar conservation laws, inspired by mean field games. We prove well-posedness of the stochastically perturbed equation; prove that it converges as the noise parameter is sent to $0$; and that the limit is the unique entropy solution of the conservation law. Thus, the noise acts as a selection criterion for (deterministic) conservation laws. This is the first such result for nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws.

21 pages, 5 figures. v2: Added author affiliations