Traveling waves for the Keller-Segel-FKPP equation with strong chemotaxis (Q6140109)

This paper is devoted to the existence of traveling wave solutions in a Keller-Segel-FKPP equation, which models a diffusing and logistically growing population subject to chemotaxis. One of the main contribution is that no smallness assumption on the parameters is made in the strong aggregation regime, which requires a new approach to a priori estimates for the traveling wave problem. The authors complement this with a numerical investigation of the behavior of the Cauchy problem that reveals the minimal speed appears to always be 2 in contrast to what happens when the sensitivity constant goes to negative infinity, and the possible existence of a bifurcation: when the sensitivity constant is large relative to the diffusion coefficient, pulsating fronts appear. The analysis is based on suitable energy estimates in a carefully tailored uniformly local \(L^p\)-space. This space involves a scaling parameter, the choice of which is a crux of the argument. Numerical experiments exploring the stability, qualitative properties, and speeds of these waves are presented as well in this paper.