We study decay of solutions for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws which are not genuinely nonlinear. For a generic class of such systems, we determine sharp (algebraic) rates of decay in the total variation of the wave speed, for solutions with compact initial support. Our analysis involves generalized characteristic arguments and the random choice difference scheme of Glimm.
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