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Can a chemotaxis-consumption system recover from a measure-type aggregation state in arbitrary dimension?

Analysis of PDEs 2023-08-30 v1

Abstract

We consider the chemotaxis-consumption system {ut=Δuχ(uv)vt=Δvuv \left\{ \begin{aligned} u_t &= \Delta u - \chi \nabla \cdot (u\nabla v) \\ v_t &= \Delta v - uv \end{aligned} \right. in a smooth bounded domain ΩRn\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n, n2n \geq 2, with parameter χ>0\chi > 0 and Neumann boundary conditions. It is well known that, for sufficiently smooth nonnegative initial data and under a smallness condition for the initial state of vv, solutions of the above system never blow up and are even globally bounded. Going in a sense a step further in this paper, we ask the question whether the system can even recover from an initial state that already resembles measure-type blowup. To answer this, we show that, given an arbitrarily large positive Radon measure u0u_0 with u0(Ω)>0u_0(\overline{\Omega}) > 0 as the initial data for the first equation and a nonnegative L(Ω)L^\infty(\Omega) function v0v_0 with 0<v0L(Ω)<23nχ 0 < \|v_0\|_{L^{\infty}(\Omega)} < \frac{2}{3n\chi} as initial data for the second equation, it is still possible to construct a global classic solution to the above system.

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@article{arxiv.2308.14934,
  title  = {Can a chemotaxis-consumption system recover from a measure-type aggregation state in arbitrary dimension?},
  author = {Frederic Heihoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.14934},
  year   = {2023}
}