Can chemotaxis speed up or slow down the spatial spreading in parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel systems with logistic source? (Q2330620)

In this work the authors consider the spatial spreading speed and minimal wave speed of a Keller-Segel chemoattraction system. They prove upper and lower bounds of the spreading interval \([c^*_-,c^*_+]\). Moreover, they show that the chemotaxis does not slow down the spreading speed of the solutions with nonempty compactly supported initials, and that when under some conditions the chemotaxis does not speed up the spreading speed of the solutions with nonempty compactly supported initials. They also discuss the spreading properties of solutions with initial functions satisfying some exponential decay property at infinity. Finally, they prove the existence of travelling wave solutions.