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Expanding the flux gives ${\rho }_t+2t\rho {\rho }_x=0$. Along characteristics, $\dot{\rho }=0$ and $\dot{x}=2t\rho$. Labeling the initial point by $\xi$ givesEquivalently, time reparametrization for a separable conservation-law flux uses $T=t^2/2$. The projection derivative is $x_{\xi }=1-t^2\xi e^{-{\xi }^2/2}$. For large enough $t$ it becomes negative on an interval of positive $\xi$, although it tends to one at both far ends. The projection then folds and assigns several density values to one position. This establishes multivaluedness of the formal characteristic continuation, not of the admissible shock solution.