Equilibria of homogeneous functionals in the fair-competition regime

We consider macroscopic descriptions of particles where repulsion is modelled by non-linear power-law diffusion and attraction by a homogeneous singular/non-singular kernel leading to variants of the Keller–Segel model of chemotaxis. We analyse the regime in which both homogeneities scale the same w...

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Main Authors: Calvez, V, Carrillo de la Plata, JA, Hoffmann, F
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017
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Carrillo de la Plata, JA
Hoffmann, F
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description We consider macroscopic descriptions of particles where repulsion is modelled by non-linear power-law diffusion and attraction by a homogeneous singular/non-singular kernel leading to variants of the Keller–Segel model of chemotaxis. We analyse the regime in which both homogeneities scale the same with respect to dilations, that we coin as fair-competition. In the singular kernel case, we show that existence of global equilibria can only happen at a certain critical value and they are characterised as optimisers of a variant of HLS inequalities. We also study the existence of self-similar solutions for the sub-critical case, or equivalently of optimisers of rescaled free energies. These optimisers are shown to be compactly supported radially symmetric and non-increasing stationary solutions of the non-linear Keller–Segel equation. On the other hand, we show that no radially symmetric non-increasing stationary solutions exist in the non-singular kernel case, implying that there is no criticality. However, we show the existence of positive self-similar solutions for all values of the parameter under the condition that diffusion is not too fast. We finally illustrate some of the open problems in the non-singular kernel case by numerical experiments.
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spelling oxford-uuid:b5512222-0310-43a9-836e-3b8ca854ca8f2022-03-27T04:32:32ZEquilibria of homogeneous functionals in the fair-competition regimeJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:b5512222-0310-43a9-836e-3b8ca854ca8fEnglishSymplectic ElementsElsevier2017Calvez, VCarrillo de la Plata, JAHoffmann, FWe consider macroscopic descriptions of particles where repulsion is modelled by non-linear power-law diffusion and attraction by a homogeneous singular/non-singular kernel leading to variants of the Keller–Segel model of chemotaxis. We analyse the regime in which both homogeneities scale the same with respect to dilations, that we coin as fair-competition. In the singular kernel case, we show that existence of global equilibria can only happen at a certain critical value and they are characterised as optimisers of a variant of HLS inequalities. We also study the existence of self-similar solutions for the sub-critical case, or equivalently of optimisers of rescaled free energies. These optimisers are shown to be compactly supported radially symmetric and non-increasing stationary solutions of the non-linear Keller–Segel equation. On the other hand, we show that no radially symmetric non-increasing stationary solutions exist in the non-singular kernel case, implying that there is no criticality. However, we show the existence of positive self-similar solutions for all values of the parameter under the condition that diffusion is not too fast. We finally illustrate some of the open problems in the non-singular kernel case by numerical experiments.
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Equilibria of homogeneous functionals in the fair-competition regime
title Equilibria of homogeneous functionals in the fair-competition regime
title_full Equilibria of homogeneous functionals in the fair-competition regime
title_fullStr Equilibria of homogeneous functionals in the fair-competition regime
title_full_unstemmed Equilibria of homogeneous functionals in the fair-competition regime
title_short Equilibria of homogeneous functionals in the fair-competition regime
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