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Unbounded mass radial solutions for the Keller-Segel equation in the disk

Analysis of PDEs 2023-06-28 v2

Abstract

We consider the boundary value problem {Δu+uλeu=0, u>0in B1(0)νu=0on B1(0), \left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} -\Delta u+ u -\lambda e^u&=&0,\ u>0 & \mathrm{in}\ B_1(0)\\ \partial_\nu u&=&0&\mathrm{on}\ \partial B_1(0), \end{array}\right. whose solutions correspond to steady states of the Keller--Segel system for chemotaxis. Here B1(0)B_1(0) is the unit disk, ν\nu the outer normal to B1(0)\partial B_1(0), and λ>0\lambda>0 is a parameter. We show that, provided λ\lambda is sufficiently small, there exists a family of radial solutions uλu_\lambda to this system which blow up at the origin and concentrate on B1(0)\partial B_1(0), as λ0\lambda\to 0. These solutions satisfy limλ0uλ(0)lnλ=0\mboxand0<limλ01lnλB1(0)λeuλ(x)dx<, \lim_{\lambda\to 0} \frac{u_\lambda(0)}{|\ln\lambda|}=0\quad \mbox{and}\quad 0<\lim_{\lambda\to 0} \frac{1}{|\ln\lambda|}\int_{B_1(0)}\lambda e^{u_\lambda(x)}dx<\infty, having in particular unbounded mass, as λ0\lambda\to 0.

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@article{arxiv.1709.10471,
  title  = {Unbounded mass radial solutions for the Keller-Segel equation in the disk},
  author = {Denis Bonheure and Jean-Baptiste Casteras and Carlos Román},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.10471},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

33 pages. This is a major revision of the previous version, which contained a significant error. The final version will appear in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations