Structure of solutions to the system of equations describing chemotactic aggregation of cellular slime molds

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Keller and Segel derived the mathematical model describing chemotactic aggregation of cellular slime molds which move toward high cocentrations of chemical substance. So this model is called as the Keller-Segel system. Chirdress and Percus conjectured that there exists a threshold number (8π) such that if an initial value is smaller than 8π, the solutions exist globally in time, on the other hand if an initial value is greater than 8π, the chemotactic collapse can occure. Our objective is to solve this conjecture. We study the Keller-Segel system in R^2 because this system is rarely studied in hole space. Especially we treated the self-similar solution and solved almost positively the Chirdress and Percus conjectuer. For this purpose we encountered several problems and solved these. We enumerate these problems : (1)determine decay order of the self-similar solutions (2)derive the Lieuville type theorem (3)reduction to one elliptic equation from an system of two elliptic equations (4)show the radial symmetry of solutions by using the moving plane method (5)determine the global blanch of solutions (6)solve the Chirdress and Percus conjectuer.