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January  2021, 26(1): 401-414. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2020083

On a singularly perturbed semi-linear problem with Robin boundary conditions

Qianqian Hou 1, , Tai-Chia Lin 2, and  Zhi-An Wang 3,

1. 

Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
2. 

Institute of Applied Mathematical Sciences and National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS), National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
3. 

Department of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

Received  September 2019 Published  January 2020

This paper is concerned with a semi-linear elliptic problem with Robin boundary condition:
$ \begin{equation} \left\{\begin{array}{lll} \varepsilon \Delta w-\lambda w^{1+\chi} = 0, &\text{in} \ \Omega\\ \nabla w \cdot \vec{n}+\gamma w = 0, & \text{on} \ \partial \Omega \end{array}\right. \end{equation} ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(*)$
where
$ \Omega \subset {\mathbb R}^N (N\geq 1) $
 is a bounded domain with smooth boundary,
$ \vec{n} $
 denotes the unit outward normal vector of
$ \partial \Omega $
 and
$ \gamma \in {\mathbb R}/\{0\} $
.
$ \varepsilon $
 and
$ \lambda $
 are positive constants. The problem (*) is derived from the well-known singular Keller-Segel system. When
$ \gamma>0 $
, we show there is only trivial solution
$ w = 0 $
. When
$ \gamma<0 $
 and
$ \Omega = B_R(0) $
 is a ball, we show that problem (*) has a non-constant solution which converges to zero uniformly as
$ \varepsilon $
 tends to zero. The main idea of this paper is to transform the Robin problem (*) to a nonlocal Dirichelt problem by a Cole-Hopf type transformation and then use the shooting method to obtain the existence of the transformed nonlocal Dirichlet problem. With the results for (*), we get the existence of non-constant stationary solutions to the original singular Keller-Segel system.
Keywords: Keller-Segel model, Robin boundary condition, nonlocal ODE, Cole-Hopf transformation, blowup radius.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35A01, 35J15, 35J66, 35Q92, 92C17.
Citation: Qianqian Hou, Tai-Chia Lin, Zhi-An Wang. On a singularly perturbed semi-linear problem with Robin boundary conditions. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2021, 26 (1) : 401-414. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2020083
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J. Adler, Chemotaxis in bacteria, Science, 153 (1966), 708-716.   Google Scholar

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M. Chae and K. Choi, Nonlinear stability of planar traveling waves in a chemotaxis model of tumor angiogenesis with chemical diffusion, arXiv: 1903.04372v1. Google Scholar

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M. Winkler, Renormalized radial large-data solutions to the higher-dimensional keller-segel system with singular sensitivity and signal absorption, J. Differential Equations, 264 (2018), 2310-2350.  doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2017.10.029.  Google Scholar

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