A refined criterion and lower bounds for the blow-up time in a parabolic-elliptic chemotaxis system with nonlinear diffusion

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Abstract: This paper deals with unbounded solutions to the following zero--flux chemotaxis system �egin{equation}label{ProblemAbstract} ag{Diamond} �egin{cases} % about u u_t=

abla cdot [(u+alpha)^{m_1-1} abla u-chi u(u+alpha)^{m_2-2}

abla v] & (x,t) in Omega imes (0,T_{max}), \[1mm] % about v 0=Delta v-M+u & (x,t) in Omega imes (0,T_{max}), end{cases} end{equation} where alpha>0, Omega is a smooth and bounded domain of mathbbRn, with ngeq1, tin(0,Tmax), where Tmax the blow-up time, and m1,m2 real numbers. Given a sufficiently smooth initial data u0:=u(x,0)geq0 and set M:=frac1|Omega|intOmegau0(x),dx, from the literature it is known that under a proper interplay between the above parameters m1,m2 and the extra condition intOmegav(x,t)dx=0, system eqref{ProblemAbstract} possesses for any chi>0 a unique classical solution which becomes unbounded at tearrowTmax. In this investigation we first show that for p0>fracn2(m2−m1) any blowing up classical solution in Linfty(Omega)--norm blows up also in Lp0(Omega)--norm. Then we estimate the blow--up time Tmax providing a lower bound T.


The following system of chemotaxis equations \[ u_t=\nabla\cdot[(u+\alpha)^{m_1-1}\nabla u-\chi u(u+\alpha)^{m_2-2}\nabla v], \] \[ \Delta v-M+u=0, M=\frac{1}{|\Omega|}\int_\Omega u_0(x) dx, \] \(\alpha,\, \chi>0\), is studied in bounded smooth domains \(\Omega\) of \(\mathbb R^n\), supplemented with the homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. If \(m_1\le 1\), \(m_2>1\), under the assumption \(p_0>\frac{n}{2}(m_2-m_1)>1\) it is shown for nonconstant initial data \(u_0\) that solutions become unbounded in \(L^{p_0}(\Omega)\) in a finite time. An estimate of the blowup time is given. The analysis involves the functional \(\Phi(t)=\int_\Omega (u(x,t)+\alpha)^p dx\) for some \(p>1\).



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