Blowup of nonradial solutions to parabolic-elliptic systems modeling chemotaxis in two-dimensional domains (Q5935771)

The systems that the title mentions contain the parabolic equation \(u_t=\nabla \cdot(\nabla u-\chi u\nabla v)\) in \(\Omega\times \mathbb{R}^+\) and either the elliptic equation \[ \text{(P)} -\Delta v+v=\alpha u\quad\text{or}\quad \text{(JL) }-\Delta v=\alpha \Bigl(u-|\Omega|^{-1} \int_\Omega u(x,0) dx \Bigr). \] Both \(u\) and \(v\), in both systems, are supposed to satisfy zero Neumann boundary conditions; the complementary condition for the second system is \(\int_\Omega v(x,t)dx=0\). The domain \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^2\) is bounded with a smooth boundary. These systems are simplifications of a model named after \textit{E. F. Keller} and \textit{L. A. Segel} [Initiation of slime mold aggregation viewed as instability. J. Theor. Biol., 26, 399-415 (1970)]. The system for (JL) has been studied before in \textit{W. Jäger} and \textit{S. Luckhaus} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 329, 819-824 (1992; Zbl 0746.35002)]. According to the introduction the present paper is the first to consider blow-up for non-radial solutions of the systems above. This finite time blow-up occurs for both systems assuming the mass is sufficiently large: \(\int_\Omega u(x,0)dx >8\pi/ (\alpha\chi)\), and concentrated: \(\int_\Omega u(x,0) |x-q|^2dx\) is small enough for some \(q\in\Omega\). A similar result is derived for a special case with \(q\in\partial \Omega\).