Asymptotic behavior of the solutions to a family of PDE's arising from the chemotaxis equations of Keller and Segal
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The system ut = uxx - (uvx)x, vt = u - Av is considered where A is a non-negative, self-adjoint operator which commutes with the Laplacian. The operator is considered to have eigenvalues lambda n = nrholambda1, and the system is considered on [0,1] x [0,T] with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. The operators which lead to global solutions and those that lead to solutions which blow up in finite time are considered as a function of rho, using an application of the methods of Hillen and Potapov [Math. Methods Appl. Sci., 27 (2004), pp. 1783-1801] to analyze the global case and those of Halverson, Levine, and Renclawowicz [Siam J. Appl. Math., 65 (2004), pp. 336--360; 66 (2005), pp. 361--364] to analyze the finite time blowup case. Some numerical results are provided to back up the analysis. Some questions and directions for future study are posed.