Can chemotaxis speed up or slow down the spatial spreading in parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel systems with logistic source?
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 , , , , and are positive constants. Assume . Then if in addition, holds, it is proved that is the spreading speed of the solutions of \eqref{abstract-eq1} with nonnegative continuous initial function with nonempty compact support, that is, and where is the unique global classical solution of \eqref{abstract-eq1} with . It is also proved that, if and holds, then is the minimal speed of the traveling wave solutions of \eqref{abstract-eq1} connecting and , that is, for any , \eqref{abstract-eq1} has a traveling wave solution connecting and with speed , and \eqref{abstract-eq1} has no such traveling wave solutions with speed less than . Note that 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}
}