Other Kinds of Weak Solution
The notion of weak solution based on distributions is sometimes inadequate. In the case of hyperbolic systems, the notion of weak solution based on distributions does not guarantee uniqueness, and it is necessary to supplement it with entropy conditions or some other selection criterion. In fully nonlinear PDE such as the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, there is a very different definition of weak solution called viscosity solution.
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