Session 13. Global existence versus blowup in nonlinear parabolic systems

Critical mass in a volume filling model

Tomasz Cieślak, IMPAN, Poland
In my talk I will review our recent common results with Christian Stinner related to the fully parabolic volume filling Keller-Segel model with a probability jump function given by \[ q(u)=(1+u)^{-\gamma},\quad \gamma\geq 0. \] The most interesting one is a critical mass phenomenon in dimension \(2\). It states that for \(\gamma\geq 1\) there exists a value of intial mass \(m_*\) distinguishing between global-in-time bounded solutions for initial data with mass \(m<m_*\) (in the case of radially symmetric solutions the critical value is \(8\pi(1+\gamma)\), for any data \(m_*=4\pi(1+\gamma)\)) and an existence of solutions which become infinite when time goes to \(\infty\), however existing globally in time. The second situation takes place for initial mass of radially symmetric data exceeding \(8\pi(1+\gamma)\). For \(0< \gamma<1\) we have a similar result, the only difference is that it is open whether in the supercritical case solutions blow up in finite or infinite time.
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