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Can chemotaxis speed up or slow down the spatial spreading in parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel systems with logistic source?

Analysis of PDEs 2019-05-02 v2

Abstract

The current paper is concerned with the spatial spreading speed and minimal wave speed of the following Keller-Segel chemoattraction system, \begin{equation}\label{abstract-eq1} \begin{cases} u_t=u_{xx}-\chi(uv_x)_x +u(a-bu),\quad x\in\R\cr 0=v_{xx}- \lambda v+\mu u,\quad x\in\R, \end{cases} \end{equation} where χ\chi, aa, bb, λ\lambda, and μ\mu are positive constants. Assume b>χμb>\chi\mu. Then if in addition, (1+12(aλ)+(a+\la))χμb\big(1+\frac{1}{2}\frac{(\sqrt{a}-\sqrt{\lambda})_+}{(\sqrt{a}+\sqrt{\la})}\big)\chi\mu { \leq} b holds, it is proved that c0=2ac_0^*=2\sqrt a is the spreading speed of the solutions of \eqref{abstract-eq1} with nonnegative continuous initial function u0u_0 with nonempty compact support, that is, lim supxct,tu(t,x;u0)=0c>c0 \limsup_{|x|\ge ct, t\to\infty}u(t,x;u_0)=0\quad \forall\, c>c_0^* and lim infxct,tu(t,x;u0)>00<c<c0, \liminf_{|x|\le ct,t\to\infty} u(t,x;u_0)>0\quad \forall \, 0<c<c_0^*, where (u(t,x;u0),v(t,x;u0))(u(t,x;u_0),v(t,x;u_0)) is the unique global classical solution of \eqref{abstract-eq1} with u(0,x;u0)=u0(x)u(0,x;u_0)=u_0(x). It is also proved that, if b>2χμb>2\chi\mu and λa\lambda \geq a holds, then c0=2ac_0^*=2\sqrt a is the minimal speed of the traveling wave solutions of \eqref{abstract-eq1} connecting (0,0)(0,0) and (ab,μλab)(\frac{a}{b},\frac{\mu}{\lambda}\frac{a}{b}), that is, for any cc0c\ge c_0^*, \eqref{abstract-eq1} has a traveling wave solution connecting (0,0)(0,0) and (ab,μλab)(\frac{a}{b},\frac{\mu}{\lambda}\frac{a}{b}) with speed cc, and \eqref{abstract-eq1} has no such traveling wave solutions with speed less than c0c_0^*. Note that c0=2ac_0^*=2\sqrt a is the spatial spreading speed as well as the minimal wave speed of the following Fisher-KPP equation, \begin{equation} \label{abstract-eq2} u_t=u_{xx}+u(a-bu),\quad x\in\R. \end{equation}

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@article{arxiv.1901.00045,
  title  = {Can chemotaxis speed up or slow down the spatial spreading in parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel systems with logistic source?},
  author = {Rachidi B. Salako and Wenxian Shen and Shuwen Xue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.00045},
  year   = {2019}
}