Optimal decay rates and space–time analyticity of solutions to the Patlak-Keller–Segel equations

Abstract

Based on some new elementary estimates for the space–time derivatives of the heat kernel, we use a bootstrapping approach to establish quantitative estimates on the optimal decay rates for the Lq(Rd) (1≤q≤∞, d∈N) norm of the space–time derivatives of solutions to the (modified) Patlak-Keller–Segel equations with initial data in L1(Rd), which implies the joint space–time analyticity of solutions. When the L1(Rd) norm of the initial datum is small, the upper bound for the decay estimates is global in time, which yields a lower bound on the growth rate of the radius of space–time analyticity in time. As a byproduct, the space analyticity is obtained for any initial data in L1(Rd). The decay estimates and space–time analyticity are also established for solutions bounded in both space and time variables. The results can be extended to a more general class of equations.