On the Convergence of the JKO-scheme and Blow-up of solutions for a Multi-species Chemotaxis System with no Mass Preservation (2004.12368v1)

Abstract: This work considers a chemotaxis system for multi-species that includes birth or death rate terms, which implies no mass preservation of the populations. We aim to show the convergence to a $L^{\infty}\ -\ $weak solutions, that is local in time, of the JKO - scheme arising from the Optimal Transport Theory, in the spirit of [35,14]. Currently, $L^{\infty}$ solutions have shown to be important in order to get uniqueness. Since death rate case does not ensure global solutions, for arbitrary initial data, in this framework, it could be interest to analyze the Blowing-up phenomenon of this system. Therefore, in the last section, we get sufficient conditions that implies blowing-up phenomenon in finite time and we draw several stages where this occurs. This last part can be seen as a partial generalization of the blowing-up results in [16].