Persistence of mass in a chemotaxis system with logistic source
Persistence of mass in a chemotaxis system with logistic source
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jde.2015.07.019
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发表时间:
2015-12
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Youshan Tao;M. Winkler
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作者:
Youshan Tao;M. Winkler
This paper studies the dynamical properties of the chemotaxis system (⋆){u t= Δ u− χ∇⋅(u∇ v)+ r u− μ u 2, x∈ Ω, t> 0, v t= Δ v− v+ u, x∈ Ω, t> 0, under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions in bounded convex domains Ω⊂ R n, n≥ 1, with positive constants χ, r and μ. Numerical simulations but also some rigorous evidence have shown that depending on the relative size of r, μ and| Ω|, in comparison to the well-understood case when χ= 0, this problem may exhibit quite a complex solution behavior, including unexpected effects such as asymptotic decay of the quantity u within large subdomains of Ω. The present work indicates that any such extinction phenomenon, if occurring at all, necessarily must be of spatially local nature, whereas the population as a whole always persists. More precisely, it is shown that for any nonnegative global classical solution (u, v) of (⋆) with u≢ 0 one can find m⋆> 0 such that∫ Ω u (x, t) d x≥ m⋆ for all t> 0. The proof is based on an, in this context, apparently novel analysis of the functional∫ Ω ln u, deriving a lower bound for this quantity along a suitable sequence of times by appropriately exploiting a differential inequality for a suitable linear combination of∫ Ω ln u,∫ Ω u and∫ Ω v 2.