@Article{JPDE-9-221, author = {Dexing Kong }, title = {Life-span of Classical Solutions of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems}, journal = {Journal of Partial Differential Equations}, year = {1996}, volume = {9}, number = {3}, pages = {221--236}, abstract = { In this paper, we give a lower bound for the life-span of classical solutions to the Cauchy problem for first order nonlinear hyperbolic systems with small initial data, which is sharp, and give its application to the system of one-dimensional gas dynamics; for the Cauchy problem of the system of one-dimensional gas dynamics with a kind of small oscillatory initial data, we obtain a precise estimate for the life-span of classical solutions.}, issn = {2079-732X}, doi = {https://doi.org/}, url = {http://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jpde/5623.html} }