Functional inequalities, thick tails and asymptotics for the critical mass Patlak-Keller-Segel model (Q765922)

The authors study the long time behavior of the Patlak-Keller-Segel equation in \(\mathbb{R}^{2},\) focusing on the case with a critical conserved mass \( M=8\pi ,\) where \(M=\int_{\mathbb{R}^{2}}\rho _{0}(x)dx\) and \(\rho _{0}\) is the initial density of the cell population. At the critical mass there is a continuous family of steady-state solutions \(\rho _{\lambda }\), \(\lambda >0\) , with thick tails whose second moment is unbounded. The main goal of the paper is to show the stability of these solutions and to determine basins of attraction for them. To this end the authors develop new functional inequalities, using an entropy functional \(\mathcal{H}_{\lambda }\) issuing from the critical fast diffusion equation in \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\) and constructing solutions to the Patlak-Keller-Segel equation satisfying an entropy-entropy dissipation inequality for \(\mathcal{H}_{\lambda }\). To deal with this issue they set a strategy of concentration control, that may be also useful by itself. Then, using the regularity obtained from the entropy-entropy dissipation inequality they prove the existence of basins of attraction for each stationary state composed by certain initial data converging to \(\rho _{\lambda }\).