TY - JOUR T1 - Gradient Catastrophe in the Classical Solutions of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems JO - Journal of Partial Differential Equations VL - 1 SP - 28 EP - 34 PY - 2000 DA - 2000/02 SN - 13 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jpde/5494.html KW - Classical solution KW - blow up KW - strictly hyperbolic KW - dissipation KW - existence AB - Classical solutions of hyperbolic systems, generally, collapse in finite time, even for small and smooth initial data. Here, we consider a type of these systems and prove a blow up result.