On the parabolic-elliptic Patlak-Keller-Segel system in dimension 2 and higher
Author(s) -
Adrien Blanchet
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
séminaire laurent schwartz — edp et applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2266-0607
DOI - 10.5802/slsedp.6
Subject(s) - dictyostelium discoideum , diffusion , random walk , petri dish , dimension (graph theory) , realization (probability) , space (punctuation) , taxis , scale (ratio) , mathematics , biological system , physics , computer science , chemistry , pure mathematics , biology , thermodynamics , statistics , biochemistry , genetics , botany , quantum mechanics , gene , operating system
This review is dedicated to recent results on the 2d parabolic-elliptic Patlak-Keller-Segel model, and on its variant in higher dimensions where the diffusion is of critical porous medium type. Both of these models have a critical mass $M_c$ such that the solutions exist globally in time if the mass is less than $M_c$ and above which there are solutions which blowup in finite time. The main tools, in particular the free energy, and the idea of the methods are set out. A number of open questions are also stated.
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