When do Keller-Segel systems with heterogeneous logistic sources admit generalized solutions?

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Abstract: We construct global generalized solutions to the chemotaxis system �egin{align*} �egin{cases} u_t = Delta u -

abla cdot (u

abla v) + lambda(x) u - mu(x) u^kappa,\ v_t = Delta v - v + u end{cases} end{align*} in smooth, bounded domains OmegasubsetmathbbRn, ngeq2, for certain choices of lambda,mu and kappa. Here, inter alia, the selections mu(x)=|x|alpha with alpha<2 and kappa=2as well as muequivmu1>0 and kappa>minfrac2n−2n,frac2n+4n+4 are admissible (in both cases for any sufficiently smooth lambda). While the former case appears to be novel in general, in the two- and three-dimensional setting, the latter improves on a recent result by Winkler (Adv. Nonlinear Anal. 9 (2019), no. 1, 526-566), where the condition kappa>frac2n+4n+4 has been imposed. In particular, for n=2, our result shows that taking any kappa>1 suffices to exclude the possibility of collapse into a persistent Dirac distribution.


A doubly parabolic chemotaxis system with space dependent logistic type sources is considered on bounded domains of \(\mathbb R^n\). Refined conditions for the global-in-time existence of suitable weak solutions have been derived improving previous results. A recourse to generalized solutions had been important in view of poor regularity properties in general cases.



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