Absolute instabilities of travelling wave solutions in a Keller–Segel model

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DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AA842FzbMATH Open1387.35090arXiv1608.05480OpenAlexW2508876268MaRDI QIDQ4597516FDOQ4597516

P. van Heijster, Robert Marangell, P. N. Davis

Publication date: 13 December 2017

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the spectral stability of travelling wave solutions in a Keller-Segel model of bacterial chemotaxis with a logarithmic chemosensitivity function and a constant, sublinear, and linear consumption rate. Linearising around the travelling wave solutions, we locate the essential and absolute spectrum of the associated linear operators and find that all travelling wave solutions have essential spectrum in the right half plane. However, we show that in the case of constant or sublinear consumption there exists a range of parameters such that the absolute spectrum is contained in the open left half plane and the essential spectrum can thus be weighted into the open left half plane. For the constant and sublinear consumption rate models we also determine critical parameter values for which the absolute spectrum crosses into the right half plane, indicating the onset of an absolute instability of the travelling wave solution. We observe that this crossing always occurs off of the real axis.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05480





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