Spreading Speeds and Traveling waves of a parabolic-elliptic chemotaxis system with logistic source on R^N

Abstract

In this paper, we study the spreading speeds and traveling wave solutions of the PDE $$ \begin{cases} u_{t}= \Delta u-\chi \nabla \cdot (u \nabla v) + u(1-u),\ \ x\in\mathbb{R}^N 0=\Delta v-v+u, \ \ x\in\mathbb{R}^N, \end{cases} $$ where $u(x,t)$ and $v(x,t)$ represent the population and the chemoattractant densities, respectively, and $\chi$ is the chemotaxis sensitivity. It has been shown in an earlier work by the authors of the current paper that, when $0<\chi<1$, for every nonnegative uniformly continuous and bounded function $u_0(x)$, the system has a unique globally bounded classical solution $(u(x,t;u_0),v(x,t;u_0))$ with initial condition $u(x,0;u_0)=u_0(x)$. Furthermore, if $0<\chi<\frac{1}{2}$, then the constant steady-state solution $(1,1)$ is asymptotically stable with respect to strictly positive perturbations. In the current paper, we show that if $0<\chi<1$, then there are nonnegative constants $c_{-}^*(\chi)\leq c_+^*(\chi)$ such that for every nonnegative initial function $u_0(\cdot)$ with nonempty compact support $$ \lim_{t\to\infty} \sup_{|x|\le ct} \big[|u(x,t;u_0)-1|+|v(x,t;u_0)-1|\big]=0\ \ \forall\ 0 c_{+}^*(\chi).$$ We also show that if $0<\chi<\frac{1}{2}$, there is a positive constant $c^*(\chi)$ such that for every $c\ge c^*(\chi)$, the system has a traveling wave solution $(u(x,t),v(x,t))$ with speed $c$ and connecting $(1,1)$ and $(0,0)$, that is, $(u(x,t),v(x,t))=(U(x-ct),V(x-ct))$ for some functions $U(\cdot)$ and $V(\cdot)$ satisfying $(U(-\infty),V(-\infty))=(1,1)$ and $(U(\infty),V(\infty))=(0,0)$. Moreover, $$ \lim_{\chi\to 0}c^*(\chi)=\lim_{\chi\to 0}c_+^*(\chi)=\lim_{\chi\to 0}c_-^*(\chi)=2. $$ We first give a detailed study in the case $N=1$ and next we extend these results to the case $N\ge 2$.