The aggregation-diffusion equation with the intermediate exponent

TL;DR

This paper studies a Keller-Segel model with nonlinear diffusion and nonlocal attraction, identifying conditions for global existence or finite-time blow-up based on initial data thresholds.

Contribution

It introduces a classification of solution behaviors for a Keller-Segel model with intermediate exponent diffusion and nonlocal interactions, including a threshold criterion for blow-up.

Findings

Existence of a threshold based on Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality

Global solutions exist below the threshold

Finite-time blow-up occurs above the threshold

Abstract

We consider a Keller-Segel model with non-linear porous medium type diffusion and nonlocal attractive power law interaction, focusing on potentials that are less singular than Newtonian interaction. Here, the nonlinear diffusion is chosen to be $\frac{2d}{d+2s}<m<2-\frac{2s}{d}$ in which case the steady states are compactly supported. We analyse under which conditions on the initial data the regime that attractive forces are stronger than diffusion occurs and classify the global existence and finite time blow-up of solutions. It is shown that there is a threshold value which is characterized by the optimal constant of a variant of Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality such that the solution will exist globally if the initial data is below the threshold, while the solution blows up in finite time when the initial data is above the threshold.