Stochastic particle approximation of the Keller-Segel equation and two-dimensional generalization of Bessel processes

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Abstract: The Keller-Segel partial differential equation is a two-dimensional model for chemotaxis. When the total mass of the initial density is one, it is known to exhibit blow-up in finite time as soon as the sensitivity chi of bacteria to the chemo-attractant is larger than 8pi. We investigate its approximation by a system of N two-dimensional Brownian particles interacting through a singular attractive kernel in the drift term. In the very subcritical case chiextless2pi, the diffusion strongly dominates this singular drift: we obtain existence for the particle system and prove that its flow of empirical measures converges, as Noinfty and up to extraction of a subsequence, to a weak solution of the Keller-Segel equation. We also show that for any Nge2 and any value of chiextgreater0, pairs of particles do collide with positive probability: the singularity of the drift is indeed visited. Nevertheless, when chiextless2piN, it is possible to control the drift and obtain existence of the particle system until the first time when at least three particles collide. We check that this time is a.s. infinite, so that global existence holds for the particle system, if and only if chileq8pi(N−2)/(N−1). Finally, we remark that in the system with N=2 particles, the difference between the two positions provides a natural two-dimensional generalization of Bessel processes, which we study in details.





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