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Christoph Walker

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arXiv2026

A Sharp Mass Threshold for Boundedness in a Critical Quasilinear Chemotaxis Model With Indirect Signal Production: The Radially Symmetric Case

A critical quasilinear chemotaxis model with indirect signal production in space dimensions higher than two is studied under radial symmetry. Exploiting the variational structure of the system, the existence of a sharp mass threshold M\textsubscr{c} > 0 is established: all solutions with mass below M\textsubscr{c} are global and bounded, while those with mass above M\textsubscr{c} and sufficiently negative energy are global but blow up in infinite time. Moreover, the value of the critical mass M\textsubscr{c} is related to the best constant of a variant of a Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality.

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arXiv2026

Stability of Equilibria in a Biofilm Reactor Model with Wall Attachment and Thermodynamic Growth Inhibition

The dynamics of a mathematical model for a chemostat-type reactor is investigated. The model describes the temporal evolution of suspended and wall-attached bacterial populations, with the latter represented as a one-dimensional biofilm, subject to a non-reproducing growth-limiting substrate and a reaction product formed through bacterial utilization of the substrate. In particular, it is shown that, in the regime where the trivial (washout) equilibrium is unstable, there exists a unique nontrivial equilibrium that is locally asymptotically stable. Under slightly stronger assumptions, uniform persistence and global asymptotic stability of the nontrivial equilibrium are established.

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arXiv2026

Analysis of a Biofilm Model in a Continuously Stirred Tank Reactor with Wall Attachment

We investigate a mathematical model for a bacterial population in a continuously stirred tank reactor with wall attachment. The model couples a free-boundary value problem for substrate diffusion in the one-dimensional biofilm with a system of nonlinear ODEs for biofilm thickness, suspended biomass, and free substrate concentration. We establish global well-posedness and analyze the long-term dynamics. In particular, we characterize the local and global stability of the trivial (washout) equilibrium, prove the existence of a nontrivial equilibrium, and, under additional structural assumptions, establish its uniqueness and derive conditions for its local stability.

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arXiv2026

Linearized Stability of Non-Isolated Equilibria of Quasilinear Parabolic Problems in Interpolation Spaces

The stability of non-isolated equilibria to quasilinear parabolic problems of the form $u' = A(u)u + f(u)$ is established in interpolation spaces (and thus extending previous results relying on maximal regularity). The approach allows full flexibility in choosing the interpolation methods and requires only low regularity assumptions on the semilinear part $f$. Applications to concrete problems are presented, including the capillarity-driven Hele--Shaw problem and the fractional mean curvature flow.

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arXiv2025

Dynamics of the reversible Gray-Scott model and convergence to its irreversible limit

Well-posedness of a reversible variant of the Gray-Scott model is shown, along with the convergence of each trajectory to one of the two spatially homogeneous steady states. The principle of linearized stability provides the local attractivity at an exponential rate of the stable steady state, while the long-term limit is identified with the help of center manifold theory. Finally, convergence to the classical Gray-Scott model is proved for an appropriate choice of parameters.

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arXiv2025

Recovering Initial States in Certain Quasilinear Parabolic Problems from Time Averages

The inverse problem of reconstructing the initial state in quasilinear parabolic equations from time averages is investigated. Under suitable regularity assumptions on the quasilinear structure and a superlinear growth condition near zero for the semilinear part, it is shown that the initial state can be uniquely recovered from small time averages taken over an arbitrary time period. The applicability of the result is demonstrated for certain chemotaxis models and reaction-diffusion systems.

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arXiv2025

A potential theory approach to the capillarity-driven Hele-Shaw problem

In this paper, we demonstrate that potential theory provides a powerful framework for analyzing quasistationary fluid flows in bounded geometries, where the bulk dynamics are governed by elliptic equations with constant coefficients. This approach is illustrated by the two-dimensional Hele-Shaw problem with surface tension, for which we derive local well-posedness and parabolic smoothing in (almost) optimal function spaces. In addition, we establish a generalized principle of linearized stability for a particular class of abstract quasilinear parabolic problems, which enables us to show that the stationary solutions to the Hele-Shaw problem are exponentially stable.

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arXiv2025

Analysis of a one-dimensional biofilm model

In this paper a reduced one-dimensional moving boundary model is studied that describes the evolution of a biofilm driven by the presence of a reaction limiting substrate. Global well-posedness is established for the resulting parabolic free boundary value problem in strong form in Sobolev spaces and for a quasi-stationary approximation in spaces of classical regularity. The general existence results are complemented by results about the qualitative properties of solutions including the existence, in general, and, additionally, the uniqueness and stability of non-trivial equilibria, in a special case.

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arXiv2024

On the principle of linearized stability for quasilinear evolution equations in time-weighted spaces

Quasilinear (and semilinear) parabolic problems of the form $v'=A(v)v+f(v)$ with strict inclusion $\mathrm{dom}(f)\subsetneq \mathrm{dom}(A)$ of the domains of the function $v\mapsto f(v)$ and the quasilinear part $v\mapsto A(v)$ are considered in the framework of time-weighted function spaces. This allows one to establish the principle of linearized stability in intermediate spaces lying between $\mathrm{dom}(f)$ and $\mathrm{dom}(A)$ and yields a greater flexibility with respect to the phase space for the evolution. In applications to differential equations such intermediate spaces may correspond to critical spaces exhibiting a scaling invariance. Several examples are provided to demonstrate the applicability of the results.

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arXiv2024

Quasilinear parabolic equations with superlinear nonlinearities in critical spaces

Well-posedness in time-weighted spaces for quasilinear (and semilinear) parabolic evolution equations $u'=A(u)u+f(u)$ is established in a certain critical case of strict inclusion $\mathrm{dom}(f)\subsetneq \mathrm{dom}(A)$ for the domains of the (superlinear) function $u\mapsto f(u)$ and the quasilinear part $u\mapsto A(u)$. Based upon regularizing effects of parabolic equations, it is proven that the solution map generates a semiflow in a critical intermediate space. The applicability of the abstract results is demonstrated by several examples including a model for atmospheric flows and semilinear and quasilinear evolution equations with scaling invariance for which well-posedness in the critical scaling invariant intermediate spaces is shown.

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arXiv2024

Recovering Initial States in Semilinear Parabolic Problems from Time-Averages

Well-posedness of certain semilinear parabolic problems with nonlocal initial conditions is shown in time-weighted spaces. The result is applied to recover the initial states in semilinear parabolic problems with nonlinearities of superlinear behavior near zero from small time-averages over arbitrary time periods.

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arXiv2024

On a Quasilinear Parabolic-Hyperbolic System Arising in MEMS Modeling

A coupled system consisting of a quasilinear parabolic equation and a semilinear hyperbolic equation is considered. The problem arises as a small aspect ratio limit in the modeling of a MEMS device taking into account the gap width of the device and the gas pressure. The system is regarded as a special case of a more general setting for which local well-posedness of strong solutions is shown. The general result applies to different cases including a coupling of the parabolic equation to a semilinear wave equation of either second or fourth order, the latter featuring either clamped or pinned boundary conditions.

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arXiv2023

Well-Posedness of Quasilinear Parabolic Equations in Time-Weighted Spaces

Well-posedness in time-weighted spaces of certain quasilinear (and semilinear) parabolic evolution equations $u'=A(u)u+f(u)$ is established. The focus lies on the case of strict inclusions $\mathrm{dom}(f)\subsetneq \mathrm{dom}(A)$ of the domains of the nonlinearities $u\mapsto f(u)$ and $u\mapsto A(u)$. Based on regularizing effects of parabolic equations it is shown that a semiflow is generated in intermediate spaces. In applications this allows one to derive global existence from weaker a priori estimates. The result is illustrated by examples of chemotaxis systems.

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arXiv2023

A nonlocal Gray-Scott model: well-posedness and diffusive limit

Well-posedness in $L_\infty$ of the nonlocal Gray-Scott model is studied for integrable kernels, along with the stability of the semi-trivial spatially homogeneous steady state. In addition, it is shown that the solutions to the nonlocal Gray-Scott system converge to those to the classical Gray-Scott system in the diffusive limit.

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arXiv2023

Stability and Instability of Equilibria in Age-Structured Diffusive Populations

The principle of linearized stability and instability is established for a classical model describing the spatial movement of an age-structured population with nonlinear vital rates. It is shown that the real parts of the eigenvalues of the corresponding linearization at an equilibrium determine the latter's stability or instability. The key ingredient of the proof is the eventual compactness of the semigroup associated with the linearized problem, which is derived by a perturbation argument. The results are illustrated with examples.

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