Singular Limit Problem to the Keller-Segel System in Critical Spaces and Related Medical Problems—An Application of Maximal Regularity

Abstract

We consider singular limit problems of the Cauchy problem for the Patlak-Keller-Segel equation and related problems appeared in the theory of medical and biochemical dynamics. It is shown that the solution to the Patlak-Keller-Segel equation in a scaling critical function class converges strongly to a solution of the drift-diffusion system of parabolic-elliptic equations as the relaxation time parameter \(\tau \rightarrow \infty \). Analogous problem related to the Chaplain-Anderson model for cancer growth model is also presented as well as Arzhimer’s model that involves the multi-component drift-diffusion system. For the proof, we use generalized maximal regularity for the heat equations and systematically apply embeddings between the interpolation spaces shown in [40, 41]. The argument requires generalized version of maximal regularity developed in [40, 61], for the Cauchy problem of the heat equation.