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Asymptotics and periodic dynamics in a negative chemotaxis system with cell lethality

Analysis of PDEs 2025-11-11 v1

Abstract

This work studies the following system of parabolic partial differential equations \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \displaystyle \frac{\partial u}{\partial t} = D\Delta u + \chi \nabla \cdot(u \nabla v) + ru(1-u) - u v, \quad & x \in \Omega, ~t > 0, \\ \displaystyle \frac{\partial v}{\partial t} = \Delta v + a u -v+ f(x,t), \quad & x \in \Omega, ~t > 0, \end{cases} \end{equation*} modeling the negative chemotaxis interactions between a biological species and a lethal chemical substance that is supplied according to the known function f(x,t)f(x,t). \\\\ It is shown that if ff converges to a spatially homogeneous function f~\tilde{f} in a certain sense, then the solution (u,v)(u,v) satisfies uu~L2(Ω)+vv~L2(Ω)0as t, ||u-\tilde{u}||_{L^2(\Omega)} + ||v-\tilde{v}||_{L^2(\Omega)} \to 0 \quad \text{as } t \to \infty, where (u~,v~)(\tilde{u},\tilde{v}) is the solution to the associated ODE system \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \displaystyle \frac{d \tilde{u}}{dt~} = r \tilde{u} (1 - \tilde{u}) - \tilde{u}\tilde{v}, \quad & t>0,\\ \displaystyle \frac{d \tilde{v}}{dt~} = a\tilde{u} - \tilde{v} + \tilde{f},\quad & t>0. \end{cases} \end{equation*} Some final remarks are given for the case in which f~\tilde{f} is a time periodic function, and under which hypotheses do (u~,v~)(\tilde{u},\tilde{v}) inherit this periodicity.

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@article{arxiv.2511.06889,
  title  = {Asymptotics and periodic dynamics in a negative chemotaxis system with cell lethality},
  author = {Federico Herrero-Hervás and Mihaela Negreanu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.06889},
  year   = {2025}
}
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