# Decomposition of the wave manifold in Lax admissible regions

## TL;DR

This paper analyzes the wave manifold structure in quadratic conservation law systems, decomposing characteristic and sonic surfaces into components to identify admissible regions for constructing solutions to Riemann problems.

## Contribution

It introduces a decomposition of wave surfaces into slow and fast components, enabling the distinction of admissible regions crucial for non-local solution construction.

## Key findings

- Decomposition of characteristic and sonic surfaces into components.
- Identification of admissible and non-admissible regions.
- Application to symmetric Case IV in the Sheaffer-Shearer classification.

## Abstract

Local solutions of Riemann problems for quadratic systems of two conservation laws were constructed in the geometric context. In this paper, also for quadratic systems, we decompose the characteristic and sonic' surfaces in their slow and fast components.These decompositions allow to decompose the wave manifold in regions called admissible region and non admissible region.There are admissible regions having local shock curve arcs and non local shock curve arcs. Such regions are important to construct non local solutions of Riemann problems. Our study is restricted to the symmetric Case IV in the Sheaffer-Shearer classification.