Chemotaxis can prevent thresholds on population density (Q256845)

The chemotaxis system with the logistic growth term \[ \begin{aligned} u_t+\nabla\cdot(u\nabla v) & =\varepsilon\Delta u+u(\kappa-\mu u),\\ \Delta v-v+u& =0\end{aligned} \] is studied in higher dimensional balls. In the inviscid limit \(\varepsilon=0\), the solutions are shown to be global in time for \(\mu\geq 1\), while for \(\mu<1\) there are initial data which lead to finite time blowup. These are generalizations of the results on some kind of structure formation in the corresponding chemotaxis system in the paper [\textit{M. Winkler}, J. Nonlinear Sci. 24, No. 5, 809--855 (2014; Zbl 1311.35040)], to the higher dimensional radially symmetric case.