Models of Chemotactic System by Einstein's Brownian Motion Method and its Analysis

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel chemotactic model derived from Einstein's Brownian motion, demonstrating the formation and stability of traveling bands of organisms in response to chemical substrates.

Contribution

It is the first to use Einstein's method to derive equations for chemotactic systems involving mutual interactions and analyzes their stability.

Findings

Traveling bands are possible with limited and unlimited substrates.

Explicit conditions for linear instability are derived.

Stability is established under various norms.

Abstract

We study the movement of the living organism in a band form towards the presence of chemical substrates based on a system of partial differential evolution equations. We incorporate Einstein's method of Brownian motion to deduce the chemotactic model exhibiting a traveling band. It is the first time that Einstein's method has been used to motivate equations describing the mutual interaction of the chemotactic system. We have shown that in the presence of limited and unlimited substrate, traveling bands are achievable and it has been explained accordingly. We also study the stability of the constant steady states for the system. The linearized system about a constant steady state is obtained under the mixed Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. We are able to find explicit conditions for linear instability. The linear stability is established with respect to the L-2 norm, H1-norm, and L-infinity norm under certain conditions.