Note on forced Burgers turbulence

A putative powerlaw range of the probability density of velocity gradient in high-Reynolds-number forced Burgers turbulence is studied. In the absence of information about shock locations, elementary conservation and stationarity relations imply that the exponent $−α$ in this range satisfies $α⩾3,$ if dissipation within the power-law range is due to isolated shocks. A generalized model of shock birth and growth implies $α=7/2$ if initial data and forcing are spatially homogeneous and obey Gaussian statistics. Arbitrary values $α⩾3$ can be realized by suitably constructed homogeneous, non-Gaussian initial data and forcing.