Spectral stability of bacteria pulses for a Keller-Segel chemotactic model (Q2235671)

This paper considers the Keller-Segel system with singular chemotactic term and zero chemo-attractant diffusion \[ \begin{cases} \frac{\partial b}{\partial t}= \frac{\partial^2 b}{\partial x^2}- \beta \frac{\partial}{\partial x} \left( \frac{b}{s} \frac{\partial s}{\partial x} \right), \quad & x \in \mathbb{R},\, t>0, \\ \frac{\partial s}{\partial t}= -s^{\alpha}b, \quad & x \in \mathbb{R},\, t>0, \end{cases} \] where \(b(x,t)\) and \(s(x,t)\) denote the density of bacteria and the concentration of chemoattractant, \(\beta \frac{\partial}{\partial x} \left( \frac{b}{s} \frac{\partial s}{\partial x} \right)= \beta \frac{\partial}{\partial x} \left(b \frac{\partial}{\partial x} \ln s \right)\) is the chemotactic term with the logarithmic sensitivity \(\ln s\) and with positive chemotactic coefficient \(\beta\). \indent The main contribution of this paper is to investigate the stability of traveling waves for a Keller-Segel model with singular chemotactic term and zero chemo-attractant diffusion. By applying the detailed spectral analysis, Evans function method and special transformations and combining with some numerical simulations, the authors established the spectral stability of the traveling waves for some range of the parameters in some exponentially weighted spaces. Besides, the local well-posedness of the classical positive solution to the Cauchy problem of the model is also obtained by applying semigroup arguments and some special transformations.