Speed-up of traveling waves by negative chemotaxis (Q6075481)

This very interesting paper is concerned with various asymptotic regimes of a Keller-Segel elliptic-parabolic system with negative (i.e. repulsive) chemotaxis and Fisher-KPP (i.e. logistic) reaction. Roughly speaking, it is shown that, at least as far as traveling waves are concerned, the problem converges to a porous medium type equation when the length scale chemotaxis parameter goes to zero, and to a hyperbolic system when the chemotaxis strength goes to infinity. Both limits commute in some way. In both cases, some loss of ellipticity occurs and must be overcome by new regularity estimates, exponential decay properties and so on. Finally, some upper and lower bounds on the traveling wave speeds follow, providing insight on how the negative chemotaxis may enhance spreading velocity.