Blow-up in a higher-dimensional chemotaxis system despite logistic growth restriction (Q719554)

The paper deals with radially symmetric solutions to a class of chemotaxis systems generalizing the prototype \[ \begin{cases} u_t&=\Delta u-\chi\nabla\cdot(u\nabla v)+\lambda u-\mu u^\varkappa,\\ 0&=\Delta v-m(t)+u \end{cases} \] in a ball \(\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n,\) with parameters \(\chi>0,\) \(\lambda\geq0,\) \(\mu\geq0,\) \(\varkappa>1,\) and where \[ m(t)={1\over {|\Omega|}}\int_\Omega u(x,t)dx. \] The author shows that when \(n\geq5\) and \[ \varkappa<{3\over 2}+{1\over{2n-2}} \] then there exist initial data such that the smooth local-in-time solution of the above system blows-up in a finite time. This indicates that even superlinear growth restrictions may be insufficient to rule out a chemotactic collapse, as is known to occur in the corresponding system without any proliferation.