On measures of accretion and dissipation for solutions of the Camassa–Holm equation

Abstract

We investigate the measures of dissipation and accretion related to the weak solutions of the Camassa–Holm equation. Demonstrating certain novel properties of nonunique characteristics, we prove a new representation formula for these measures and conclude about their structural features, such as the fact that they are singular with respect to the Lebesgue measure. We apply these results to gain new insights into the structure of weak solutions, proving in particular that measures of accretion vanish for dissipative solutions of the Camassa–Holm equation.