The Riemann Problem for the Multidimensional Isentropic System of Gas Dynamics is Ill-Posed if It Contains a Shock

Abstract

In this paper we consider the isentropic compressible Euler equations in two space dimensions together with particular initial data. This data consists of two constant states, where one state lies in the lower and the other state in the upper half plane. The aim is to investigate whether there exists a unique entropy solution or if the convex integration method produces infinitely many entropy solutions. For some initial states this question has been answered by Feireisl and Kreml (J Hyperbolic Differ Equ 12(3):489–499, 2015), and also Chen and Chen (J Hyperbolic Differ Equ 4(1):105–122, 2007), where there exists a unique entropy solution. For other initial states Chiodaroli and Kreml (Arch Ration Mech Anal 214(3):1019–1049, 2014) and Chiodaroli et al. (Commun Pure Appl Math 68(7):1157–1190, 2015), showed that there are infinitely many entropy solutions. For still other initial states the question on uniqueness remained open and this will be the content of this paper. This paper can be seen as a completion of the aforementioned papers by showing that the solution is non-unique in all cases (except if the solution is smooth).