Let be the shock separating the fans from and . Their traces giveThus . Between consecutive shocks, . Writing for the fractional part, the period-one solution can be expressed, with right-hand shock traces, asTo put it in the requested fixed-support sum, takeThe half-open cells partition the line, so exactly one summand contributes at each point. This is a representation of the periodic solution, not a superposition principle for arbitrary solutions of a nonlinear equation.
The left and right shock states are and ; both average to the shock speed , and the strict inequalities certify causality. The periodic square-wave relaxation for the inviscid Burgers equation has the uniform estimateThe limit is the conserved mean .