The hyperbolic-parabolic chemotaxis system for vasculogenesis: global dynamics and relaxation limit toward a Keller-Segel model

TL;DR

This paper analyzes a hyperbolic-parabolic chemotaxis system modeling vasculogenesis, establishing global well-posedness, decay rates, and rigorously justifying the relaxation limit toward the Keller-Segel model.

Contribution

It provides the first rigorous analysis of the global dynamics and relaxation limit for this hyperbolic-parabolic chemotaxis system in critical regularity spaces.

Findings

Global classical solutions exist for small initial data.

Optimal decay rates of solutions are established.

The relaxation limit converges to Keller-Segel equations with explicit rate.

Abstract

An Euler-type hyperbolic-parabolic system of chemotactic aggregation describing the vascular network formation is investigated in the critical regularity setting. For small initial data around a constant equilibrium state, the well-posedness of the global classical solution to the Cauchy problem with general pressure laws is established in homogeneous hybrid Besov spaces. Then, the optimal time-decay rates of the global solution are analyzed under an additional regularity assumption on the initial data. Furthermore, the relaxation limit (large friction limit) of the hyperbolic-parabolic system is justified rigorously. It is shown that as the friction coefficient tends to zero, the global solution of the hyperbolic-parabolic chemotaxis system converges to the global solution of the Keller-Segel equations with an explicit convergence rate. To capture the dissipative properties of the nonlinear system, our approach relies on the introduction of new effective unknowns in low frequencies and the construction of a Lyapunov functional in the spirit of Beauchard and Zuazua's in [5] to treat the high frequencies.