Large amplitude stationary solutions to a chemotaxis system (Q1122699)

The existence of nonconstant stationary solutions to the Keller-Segel model [J. Theor. Biol. 26, 399-415 (1970)] is treated. The problem is reduced to the following single equation: \[ (1)\quad d\Delta w-w+w^ p=0\quad on\quad \Omega,\quad \partial w/\partial n=0\quad on\quad \partial \Omega, \] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \({\mathbb{R}}^ n.\) It is shown that for d sufficiently small no nonconstant solutions to (1) are possible and for d sufficiently close to 0 there exist uniformly bounded nonconstant solutions. The behaviour of the latter is investigated when \(d\to 0\).