Special Session 81: Reaction-(cross-)diffusion models in mathematical biology

Traveling waves to a logarithmic chemotaxis model with fast diffusion and singularities
Jingyu Li
Northeast Normal University
Peoples Rep of China
Co-Author(s):    Xiaowen Li, Dongfang Li, Ming Mei
Abstract:
We are concerned with a chemotaxis model with logarithmic sensitivity and fast diffusion, which possesses strong singularities for the sensitivity at zero-concentration of chemical signal, and for the diffusion at zero-population of cells, respectively. The main purpose is to show the existence of traveling waves connecting the singular zero-end-state, and particularly, to show the asymptotic stability of these traveling waves. The challenge of the problem is the interaction of two kinds of singularities involved in the model: one is the logarithmic singularity of the sensitivity; and the other is the power-law singularity of the diffusivity. To overcome the singularities for the wave stability, some new techniques of weighted energy method are introduced artfully.