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In a recent paper (J. Differential Equations, 310: 506-554, 2022), the authors proved the existence of martingale solutions to a stochastic version of the classical Patlak-Keller-Segel system in 1 dimension (1D), driven by time-homogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Erika Hausenblas , Debopriya Mukherjee , Thanh Tran

Controlling complex reaction networks is a fundamental challenge in the fields of physics, biology, and systems engineering. Here, we prove a general principle for catalytic reaction systems with kinetics where the reaction order and the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Yusuke Himeoka , Shuhei A. Horiguchi , Naoto Shiraishi , Fangzhou Xiao , Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

Replacing linear diffusion by a degenerate diffusion of porous medium type is known to regularize the classical two-dimensional parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel model. The implications of nonlinear diffusion are that solutions exist globally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-02 José Antonio Carrillo , Daniele Castorina , Bruno Volzone

This paper is concerned with the boundary-layer solutions of the singular Keller-Segel model proposed by Keller-Segel (1971) in a multi-dimensional domain, where the zero-flux boundary condition is imposed to the cell while inhomogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Jose A. Carrillo , Jingyu Li , Zhi-An Wang , Wen Yang

Pattern formation from homogeneity is well-studied, but less is known concerning symmetry-breaking instabilities in heterogeneous media. It is nontrivial to separate observed spatial patterning due to inherent spatial heterogeneity from…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-12-10 Andrew L. Krause , Václav Klika , Thomas E. Woolley , Eamonn A. Gaffney

One of the classical models in mathematical biology is the Lotka-Volterra competition model, describing the dynamics of two populations competing for resources. Two possible regimes in this system are given by their coexistence or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Valentina Bucur , Dr Bakhtier Vasiev

Chemotaxis plays a significant role in numerous physiological processes. The Keller-Segel equation serves as a mathematical model for simulating the phenomenon of cell population aggregation under chemotaxis, possessing physical properties…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Mingmei Chen , Kun Wang , Cong Xie

Contraction-driven self-propulsion of a large class of living cells can be modeled by a Keller-Segel system with free boundaries. The ensuing "active" system, exhibiting both dissipation and anti-dissipation, features stationary and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Leonid Berlyand , C. Alex Safsten , Lev Truskinovsky

We exploit the existence and nonlinear stability of boundary spike/layer solutions of the Keller-Segel system with logarithmic singular sensitivity in the half space, where the physical zero-flux and Dirichlet boundary conditions are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Jose A Carrillo , Jingyu Li , Zhian Wang

The capacity to aggregate through chemosensitive movement forms a paradigm of self-organisation, with examples spanning cellular and animal systems. A basic mechanism assumes a phenotypically homogeneous population that secretes its own…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Fiona R Macfarlane , Tommaso Lorenzi , Kevin J Painter

Chemotaxis plays a crucial role in a variety of processes in biology and ecology. In many instances, processes involving chemical attraction take place in fluids. One of the most studied PDE models of chemotaxis is given by Keller-Segel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Alexander Kiselev , Xiaoqian Xu

This paper continues our survey about the mean-field derivation of the two-dimensional signal-dependent Keller-Segel system studied in [1]. Therefore, we consider the same system of moderately interacting particles as before. The difference…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Lukas Bol , Li Chen

For a Keller-Segel model for chemotaxis in two spatial dimensions we consider a modification of a positivity preserving fully discrete scheme using a local extremum diminishing flux limiter. We discretize space using piecewise linear finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Panagiotis Chatzipantelidis , Christos Pervolianakis

We introduce a random matrix model for the stationary covariance of multivariate Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes with heterogeneous temperatures, where the covariance is constrained by the Sylvester-Lyapunov equation. Using the replica method,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-30 Leonardo Ferreira , Fernando Metz , Paolo Barucca

We numerically investigate the properties of speckle patterns formed by nonlinear point scatterers. We show that, in the weak localization regime, dynamical instability appears, eventually leading to chaotic behavior of the system.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-29 Benoit Gremaud , Thomas Wellens

A generically observed mechanism that drives the self-organization of living systems is interaction via chemical signals among the individual elements -- which may represent cells, bacteria, or even enzymes. Here we propose a novel…

We propose a method which can effectively stabilize fixed points in the classical and quantum dynamics of a phase-sensitive chaotic system with feedback. It is based on feeding back a selected quantum sub-ensemble whose phase and amplitude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mauro Fortunato , Gershon Kurizki , Wolfgang P. Schleich

This paper is devoted to the analysis of the classical Keller-Segel system over $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 3$. We describe as much as possible the dynamics of the system characterized by various criteria, both in the parabolic-elliptic case and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-23 Vincent Calvez , Lucilla Corrias , Mohammed Abderrahman Ebde

We consider the parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel equation in the plane and prove the nonlinear exponential stability of the self-similar profile in a quasi parabolic-elliptic regime. We first perform a perturbation argument in order to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Frank Alvarez Borges , Kleber Carrapatoso , Stéphane Mischler

We consider macroscopic descriptions of particles where repulsion is modelled by non-linear power-law diffusion and attraction by a homogeneous singular/smooth kernel leading to variants of the Keller-Segel model of chemotaxis. We analyse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Vincent Calvez , Jose Antonio Carrillo , Franca Hoffmann