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In this paper we use the theory of compensated compactness coupled with some basic ideas of the kinetic formulation by Lions, Perthame, Souganidis & Tadmor [LPS, LPT] to establish an existence theorem for global entropy solutions of the nonstrictly hyperbolic system (1).
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Lu, Yg. Existence of Global Entropy Solutions of a Nonstrictly Hyperbolic System. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 178, 287–299 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00205-005-0379-0
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