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Finite mass self-similar blowing-up solutions of a chemotaxis system with non-linear diffusion

Analysis of PDEs 2012-07-10 v1

Abstract

For a specific choice of the diffusion, the parabolic-elliptic Patlak-Keller-Segel system with non-linear diffusion (also referred to as the quasi-linear Smoluchowski-Poisson equation) exhibits an interesting threshold phenomenon: there is a critical mass Mc>0M_c>0 such that all the solutions with initial data of mass smaller or equal to McM_c exist globally while the solution blows up in finite time for a large class of initial data with mass greater than McM_c. Unlike in space dimension 2, finite mass self-similar blowing-up solutions are shown to exist in space dimension d?3d?3.

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@article{arxiv.0911.0835,
  title  = {Finite mass self-similar blowing-up solutions of a chemotaxis system with non-linear diffusion},
  author = {Adrien Blanchet and Philippe Laurencot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.0835},
  year   = {2012}
}