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Pushed and pulled fronts in a logistic Keller-Segel model with chemorepulsion

Analysis of PDEs 2023-08-04 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We analyze spatial spreading in a population model with logistic growth and chemorepulsion. In a parameter range of short-range chemo-diffusion, we use geometric singular perturbation theory and functional-analytic farfield-core decompositions to identify spreading speeds with marginally stable front profiles. In particular, we identify a sharp boundary between between linearly determined, pulled propagation, and nonlinearly determined, pushed propagation, induced by the chemorepulsion. The results are motivated by recent work on singular limits in this regime using PDE methods.

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@article{arxiv.2308.01754,
  title  = {Pushed and pulled fronts in a logistic Keller-Segel model with chemorepulsion},
  author = {Montie Avery and Matt Holzer and Arnd Scheel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.01754},
  year   = {2023}
}

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34 pages, 1 figure

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