Slow and fast minimal speed traveling waves of the FKPP equation with chemotaxis (Q2085759): Difference between revisions

The authors investigates a Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion equation with a nonlocal advection term, which may stands for an either attractive or repulsive intraspecific interaction. For some particular choice of the convolution kernel, one recovers the Keller-Segel-Fisher problem. However, the point of this paper is to study the effect of chemotaxis, with as little assumption as possible on its structure, on the minimal speed of traveling waves. The construction of the traveling wave itself follows a somewhat standard process, by a topological degree on a truncated domain and a limiting argument. The main difficulty in order to estimate the speed is the lack of a maximum principle. Still, some partial comparison arguments can be done to show that: 1) when the interaction is weak and localized enough, the minimal speed is the same as in the usual Fisher-KPP equation (pulled case) 2) when the interaction is strongly repulsive and the kernel is wide enough, then the minimal speed is strictly larger and nonlinearly determined (pushed case).