Can chemotaxis speed up or slow down the spatial spreading in parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel systems with logistic source?

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Abstract: The current paper is concerned with the spatial spreading speed and minimal wave speed of the following Keller-Segel chemoattraction system, �egin{equation}label{abstract-eq1} �egin{cases} u_t=u_{xx}-chi(uv_x)_x +u(a-bu),quad xinRcr 0=v_{xx}- lambda v+mu u,quad xinR, end{cases} end{equation} where chi, a, b, lambda, and mu are positive constants. Assume b>chimu. Then if in addition, holds, it is proved that c0∗=2sqrta is the spreading speed of the solutions of eqref{abstract-eq1} with nonnegative continuous initial function u0 with nonempty compact support, that is, limsup_{|x|ge ct, t oinfty}u(t,x;u_0)=0quad forall, c>c_0^* and liminf_{|x|le ct,t oinfty} u(t,x;u_0)>0quad forall , 0<c<c_0^*, where (u(t,x;u0),v(t,x;u0)) is the unique global classical solution of eqref{abstract-eq1} with u(0,x;u0)=u0(x). It is also proved that, if b>2chimu and lambdageqa holds, then c0∗=2sqrta is the minimal speed of the traveling wave solutions of eqref{abstract-eq1} connecting (0,0) and (fracab,fracmulambdafracab), that is, for any cgec0∗, eqref{abstract-eq1} has a traveling wave solution connecting (0,0) and (fracab,fracmulambdafracab) with speed c, and eqref{abstract-eq1} has no such traveling wave solutions with speed less than c0∗. Note that c0∗=2sqrta is the spatial spreading speed as well as the minimal wave speed of the following Fisher-KPP equation, �egin{equation} label{abstract-eq2} u_t=u_{xx}+u(a-bu),quad xinR. end{equation}


In this work the authors consider the spatial spreading speed and minimal wave speed of a Keller-Segel chemoattraction system. They prove upper and lower bounds of the spreading interval \([c^*_-,c^*_+]\). Moreover, they show that the chemotaxis does not slow down the spreading speed of the solutions with nonempty compactly supported initials, and that when under some conditions the chemotaxis does not speed up the spreading speed of the solutions with nonempty compactly supported initials. They also discuss the spreading properties of solutions with initial functions satisfying some exponential decay property at infinity. Finally, they prove the existence of travelling wave solutions.



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