How unstable is spatial homogeneity in Keller-Segel systems? A new critical mass phenomenon in two- and higher-dimensional parabolic-elliptic cases
How unstable is spatial homogeneity in Keller-Segel systems? A new critical mass phenomenon in two- and higher-dimensional parabolic-elliptic cases
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DOI:
10.1007/s00208-018-1722-8
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发表时间:
2018-07
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1.4
通讯作者:
M. Winkler
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作者:
M. Winkler
Abstract The parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel system {u_t= Δ u-∇ ⋅ (u ∇ v), &\0= Δ v-μ+ u, &\quad μ:= 1| Ω| ∫ _ Ω u,.\qquad\qquad (⋆) ut= Δ u-∇·(u∇ v), 0= Δ v-μ+ u, μ:= 1| Ω|∫ Ω u,(⋆) is considered under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions in the ball Ω= B_R (0) ⊂ R^ n Ω= BR (0)⊂ R n. The main objective is to reveal that in the context of radially symmetric solutions, this problem exhibits an apparently novel type of critical mass phenomenon: It is shown, namely, that for any choice of n ≥ 2 n≥ 2 and R> 0 R> 0 there exists a positive number m_c= m_c (n, R) mc= mc (n, R) with the following properties: Whenever m> m_c m> mc, for any nonconstant nonnegative radial initial data u_0 u 0 with ∫ _ Ω u_0= m∫ Ω u 0= m which are, in an appropriately defined sense, more concentrated than the associated spatially homogeneous equilibrium determined by u ≡ m| Ω| u≡ m| Ω|, the corresponding initial-value problem for (⋆⋆) admits a solution blowing up in finite time; in particular, this implies that any nonconstant and radially nonincreasing initial data u_0 u 0 with ∫ _ Ω u_0> m_c∫ Ω u 0> mc enforce blow-up in (⋆⋆). If m< m_c m< mc, however, then there exist infinitely many nonnegative radial functions u_0 u 0 which satisfy ∫ _ Ω u_0= m∫ Ω u 0= m and which are more concentrated than u ≡ m| Ω| u≡ m| Ω|, but which yet allow for global bounded solutions to (⋆⋆) emanating from u_0 u 0. In consequence, precisely at mass levels above m_c mc the constant steady states of (⋆⋆) possess the extreme instability property of repelling arbitrary concentration-increasing perturbations in such a drastic sense that corresponding trajectories collapse in finite time.