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Finite-time blow-up in the higher-dimensional parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel system

Analysis of PDEs 2011-12-20 v1

Abstract

We study the Neumann initial-boundary value problem for the fully parabolic Keller-Segel system u_t=\Delta u - \nabla \cdot (u\nabla v), \qquad x\in\Omega, \ t>0, [1mm] v_t=\Delta v-v+u, \qquad x\in\Omega, \ t>0, where Ω\Omega is a ball in Rn{\mathbb{R}}^n with n3n\ge 3. It is proved that for any prescribed m>0m>0 there exist radially symmetric positive initial data (u0,v0)C0(Ωˉ)×W1,(Ω)(u_0,v_0) \in C^0(\bar\Omega) \times W^{1,\infty}(\Omega) with Ωu0=m\int_\Omega u_0=m such that the corresponding solution blows up in finite time. Moreover, by providing an essentially explicit blow-up criterion it is shown that within the space of all radial functions, the set of such blow-up enforcing initial data indeed is large in an appropriate sense; in particular, this set is dense with respect to the topology of Lp(Ω)×W1,2(Ω)L^p(\Omega) \times W^{1,2}(\Omega) for any p(1,2nn+2)p \in (1,\frac{2n}{n+2}).

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@article{arxiv.1112.4156,
  title  = {Finite-time blow-up in the higher-dimensional parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel system},
  author = {Michael Winkler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.4156},
  year   = {2011}
}

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