In this paper, we study the decay rate in time to solutions of the Cauchy problem for the one-dimensional viscous conservation law where the far field states are prescribed. Especially, we deal with the case that the flux function which is convex and also the viscosity is a nonlinearly degenerate one (p-Laplacian type viscosity). As the corresponding Riemann problem admits a Riemann solution as the constant state or the single rarefaction wave, it has already been proved by Matsumura-Nishihara that the solution to the Cauchy problem tends toward the constant state or the single rarefaction wave as the time goes to infinity. We investigate that the decay rate in time of the corresponding solutions. Furthermore, we also investigate that the decay rate in time of the solution for the higher order derivative. These are the first result concerning the asymptotic decay of the solutions to the Cauchy problem of the scalar conservation law with nonlinear viscosity. The proof is given by L 1 , L 2 -energy and time-weighted L q -energy methods.
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