TY - JOUR T1 - Global Existence of Classical Solution with Small Initial Total Variation for Quasilinear Linearly Degenerate Hyperbolic Systems AU - Ping Yan JO - Journal of Partial Differential Equations VL - 4 SP - 321 EP - 334 PY - 2003 DA - 2003/11 SN - 16 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jpde/5429.html KW - Linear degeneracy KW - small initial total variation KW - slowly decaying initial data KW - global classical solution KW - quasilinear hyperbolic system AB - In this paper, the author proves the global existence of classical solution to the Cauchy problem with slowly decaying initial data with small initial total variation for general first order quasilinear linearly degenerate hyperbolic systems. This generalizes the corresponding result of A.Bressan for initial data with compact support.