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Possible points of blow-up in chemotaxis systems with spatially heterogeneous logistic source

Analysis of PDEs 2023-08-02 v1

Abstract

We discuss the influence of possible spatial inhomogeneities in the coefficients of logistic source terms in parabolic-elliptic chemotaxis-growth systems of the form \begin{align*} u_t &= \Delta u - \nabla\cdot(u\nabla v) + \kappa(x)u-\mu(x)u^2, 0 &= \Delta v - v + u \end{align*} in smoothly bounded domains ΩR2\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2. Assuming that the coefficient functions satisfy κ,μC0(Ω)\kappa,\mu\in C^0(\overline{\Omega}) with μ0\mu\geq0 we prove that finite-time blow-up of the classical solution can only occur in points where μ\mu is zero, i.e.\ that the blow-up set B\mathcal{B} is contained in \begin{align*} \big\{x\in\overline{\Omega}\mid\mu(x)=0\big\}. \end{align*} Moreover, we show that whenever μ(x0)>0\mu(x_0)>0 for some x0Ωx_0\in\overline{\Omega}, then one can find an open neighbourhood UU of x0x_0 in Ω\overline{\Omega} such that uu remains bounded in UU throughout evolution.

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@article{arxiv.2209.14184,
  title  = {Possible points of blow-up in chemotaxis systems with spatially heterogeneous logistic source},
  author = {Tobias Black and Mario Fuest and Johannes Lankeit and Masaaki Mizukami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.14184},
  year   = {2023}
}

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15 pages