Asymptotic dynamics of a system of conservation laws from chemotaxis

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the analytical study of the long-time asymptotic behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem of a system of conservation laws in one space dimension, which is derived from a repulsive chemotaxis model with singular sensitivity and nonlinear chemical production rate. Assuming the \begin{document}$ H^2 $\end{document} -norm of the initial perturbation around a constant ground state is finite and using energy methods, we show that there exists a unique global-in-time solution to the Cauchy problem, and the constant ground state is globally asymptotically stable. In addition, the explicit decay rates of the solutions to the chemically diffusive and non-diffusive models are identified under different exponent ranges of the nonlinear chemical production function.