## A limit involving a regularizing kernel

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I am studying the following article by Benoit Perthame: http://www.mendeley.com/research/uniqueness-error-estimates-first-order-quasilinear-conservation-laws-via-kinetic-entropy-defect-measure/#

Somewhere in the middle of it, I'm stuck at proving a certain limit equality. Maybe it's obvious and I can't get it.

$$\int_{(\Bbb{R})} \left(\chi(\xi,u)\star \varphi_\varepsilon \right)^2d \xi \to |u| \text{ in } {L}^1_{loc}$$

where $\varphi_\varepsilon(t,x)$ is a regularizing kernel, $u$ satisfies $$\partial_t u +\text{div}A(u)=0 \text{ and }\text{ in }\mathcal{D}^\prime((o,\infty)\times \Bbb{R}^d)$$ and

$$\chi(\xi,u)=\begin{cases} 1 & {0\leq \xi\leq u} \newline -1 & u \leq \xi \leq 0 \newline 0 & \text{otherwise} \end{cases}$$

Thank you.

 Sorry. I forgot to mention that $u \in L^1_{loc}$.

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(a) I think if the equality were to hold, it will hold regardless of the equation. For continuous functions it is easy to check that the limit holds even pointwise, since $|u| = \int_{\mathbb{R}} \chi(\xi,u)^2 d\xi$ and it is just pushing integrals around and justifying a few Fubini's. (b) If $u\in D'$, you don't necessarily have that $|u|$ is some well-defined object in $L^1_{loc}$. For example, what is $|\delta'|$? So perhaps what the equation is doing is giving $u$ a priori some regularity so that the absolute value of $u$ is well-defined. – Willie Wong Feb 29 2012 at 14:16

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Ah, your desired expression appear in the "Proof for (2.2)" step. In (2.2), which is part of the statement of Theorem 2.1. So by hypothesis $u$ is $L^1_{loc}$. So you can probably use the result for continuous functions and Luzin's theorem to get convergence. – Willie Wong Feb 29 2012 at 14:29
@Willie Wong: Thank you for your comment. I'm starting to understand now. – Beni Bogosel Feb 29 2012 at 16:38
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