\documentclass[reqno]{amsart} \usepackage{hyperref} \AtBeginDocument{{\noindent\small \emph{Electronic Journal of Differential Equations}, Vol. 2009(2009), No. 32, pp. 1--10.\newline ISSN: 1072-6691. URL: http://ejde.math.txstate.edu or http://ejde.math.unt.edu \newline ftp ejde.math.txstate.edu (login: ftp)} \thanks{\copyright 2009 Texas State University - San Marcos.} \vspace{9mm}} \begin{document} \title[\hfilneg EJDE-2009/32\hfil Existence of multiple solutions] {Existence of multiple solutions for a nonlinearly perturbed elliptic parabolic \\ system in $\mathbb{R}^2$} \author[M. Ishiwata, T. Ogawa, F. Takahashi\hfil EJDE-2009/32\hfilneg] {Michinori Ishiwata, Takayoshi Ogawa, Futoshi Takahashi}% in alphabetical order \address{Michinori Ishiwata \newline Common Subject Division\\ Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran 050-8585, Japan} \email{ishiwata@mmm.muroran-it.ac.jp} \address{Takayoshi Ogawa \newline Mathematical Institute, Tohoku University \\ Sendai 980-8578, Japan} \email{ogawa@math.tohoku.ac.jp} \address{Futoshi Takahashi \newline Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University \\ Osaka 558-8585, Japan} \email{futoshi@sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp} \thanks{Submitted August 22, 2008. Published February 16, 2009.} \subjclass[2000]{35K15, 35K55, 35Q60, 78A35} \keywords{Multiple existence; elliptic-parabolic system; \hfill\break\indent unconditional uniqueness} \begin{abstract} We consider the following nonlinearly perturbed version of the elliptic-parabolic system of Keller-Segel type: \begin{gather*} \partial_tu - \Delta u+ \nabla \cdot(u \nabla v)=0,\quad t>0,\; x\in\mathbb{R}^2, \\ -\Delta v+v-v^p=u,\quad t>0,\; x\in\mathbb{R}^2,\\ u(0,x) =u_0(x)\ge 0,\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^2, \end{gather*} where $1
0,\; x\in\mathbb{R}^2, \\ -\Delta v+v-v^p=u,\quad t>0,\; x\in\mathbb{R}^2,\\ u(0,x) =u_0(x)\ge 0, \quad x\in\mathbb{R}^2. \end{gathered} \label{eqn;pKS} \end{equation} In the context of mathematical biology, Keller and Segel \cite{K-S} introduced a parabolic system, called the Keller-Segel system, as a mathematical model of chemotactic collapse (see also Herrero-Vel\'azquez \cite{H-V1}, \cite{H-V2}, Nagai \cite{Ng}, \cite{Ng3}, Biler \cite{Bl}, Nagai-Senba-Yoshida \cite{N-S-Y}, Nagai-Senba-Suzuki \cite{N-S-S} and Senba-Suzuki \cite{S-S}). When the diffusion of the chemical substance is much slower than that of chemotaxis ameba, then the dynamics of chemotaxis is described by the following simplified system: \begin{equation} \begin{gathered} \partial_tu - \Delta u+ \nabla\cdot (u \nabla v)=0,\quad t>0,\; x\in\mathbb{R}^2, \\ -\Delta v+v=u, \quad t>0,\; x\in\mathbb{R}^2,\\ u(0,x) =u_0(x)\ge 0,\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^2. \end{gathered} \label{eqn;KS-N} \end{equation} It is well known that the existence of the finite time blow up of the solution for (\ref{eqn;KS-N}) which corresponds to the concentration of ameba (Herrero-Vel\'azquez \cite{H-V1}, \cite{H-V2}, Nagai \cite{Ng}). Chen-Zhong \cite{C-Zn} introduced a perturbed system of (\ref{eqn;KS-N}): For $p>1$, \begin{equation} \begin{gathered} \partial_tu - \Delta u+ \nabla\cdot (u \nabla v)=0,\quad t>0,\; x\in\mathbb{R}^2, \\ -\Delta v+v+v^p=u,\quad t>0,\; x\in\mathbb{R}^2,\\ u(0,x) =u_0(x)\ge 0,\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^2. \end{gathered}\label{eqn;KS-p} \end{equation} This system is considered as a model of the chemotaxis with a nonlinear diffusion for the chemical substance. It has been proved that the solution of (\ref{eqn;KS-p}) has a similar behavior to the original system (\ref{eqn;KS-N}). In fact, one can show the local existence theory and finite time blow up with mass concentration phenomena as is shown for (\ref{eqn;KS-N}), see Chen-Zhong \cite{C-Zn} and Kurokiba-Suzuki \cite{K-S2}. Note that the nonlinear term $v^p$ in the second equation in \eqref{eqn;pKS} has a different sign compared to (\ref{eqn;KS-p}). According to this difference, the behavior of the solution for \eqref{eqn;pKS} is much different from the one for (\ref{eqn;KS-p}). Indeed, the nonhomogeneous elliptic problem corresponding to the second equation of \eqref{eqn;pKS}: \begin{equation} -\Delta v+v-v^p =f,\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^2 \label{eqn;p-NE} \end{equation} admits at least two positive solutions when $f$ is a sufficiently small nonnegative nontrivial function in $H^{-1}(\mathbb{R}^2)$, while \begin{equation*} -\Delta v+v+v^p =f,\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^2 \end{equation*} has only one solution. Moreover, it is also known that if the external force $f$ is large in $H^{-1}$ sense, then there is no positive solution for the equation (\ref{eqn;p-NE}). Hence it is an interesting question whether the finite time blow up of the solution may occur in the case \eqref{eqn;pKS}, or more primitively, whether the time local solution exists properly and the system is well posed in some sense or not. In this point, the structure of the time dependent positive solutions of \eqref{eqn;pKS} seems to be very much different from that of the original system (\ref{eqn;KS-N}) or the perturbed system (\ref{eqn;KS-p}). In this paper, we shall consider solutions of \eqref{eqn;pKS} in the following sense: \begin{align*} &u \in C([0,T);L^2(\mathbb{R}^2))\cap C^1((0,T);L^2(\mathbb{R}^2)) \cap C((0,T);\dot{H}^2(\mathbb{R}^2)), \\ & v \in C((0,T);H^1(\mathbb{R}^2))\cap C((0,T);W^{2,2}(\mathbb{R}^2)) \end{align*} for some $T >0$. Recently Kurokiba-Ogawa-Takahashi \cite{K-Og-T} proved that, for a small nonnegative initial data, there exists a solution for \eqref{eqn;pKS} which is, in a sense, ``small'' one. On the other hand, as is mentioned above, the perturbed nonlinear elliptic equation (\ref{eqn;p-NE}) admits at least two positive solutions for small and nonnegative $f \not\equiv 0$. Therefore it is natural to ask whether the time dependent equation \eqref{eqn;pKS} also has a second positive solution. The main issue of this paper is to show the existence of {\it two positive time dependent solutions of \eqref{eqn;pKS}} under the radially symmetric setting. \begin{theorem}[Multiple existence] \label{thm;second-sol} Let $1
0$ such that,
if the radially symmetric nonnegative initial data
$u_0\in L^1 \cap L^2(\mathbb{R}^2)$ satisfies
$$
\|u_0\|_2\le C_{**},
$$
then there exist two positive radial pair of
solutions $(u_1(t),v_1(t))$ and $(u_2(t),v_2(t))$ for \eqref{eqn;pKS}.
One of them is different from the solution obtained in \cite{K-Og-T}.
\end{theorem}
Note that the solution obtained in \cite{K-Og-T} exists globally in time
if in addition $\| u_0 \|_1$ is sufficiently small.
The main idea to construct the time dependent solutions heavily relies
on the variational structure of
the elliptic part of the system.
The $v$-component of the solution obtained in \cite{K-Og-T} corresponds
to the
solution of (\ref{eqn;p-NE})
bifurcating
from the trivial solution with $f=0$.
On the other hand, it has been known that
the problem (\ref{eqn;p-NE}) with $f=0$ has a unique positive
solution $w$ (see Berestycki-Lions \cite{BeLi}, Gidas-Ni-Nirenberg \cite{GNN} and Kwong \cite{Kw01}).
This solution is obtained as a mountain pass critical point of the energy functional
\[
I_0(v)=\frac{1}{2}\int_{\mathbb{R}^2}|\nabla
v|^2dx+\frac{1}{2}\int_{\mathbb{R}^2}|v|^2dx
-\frac{1}{p+1}\int_{\mathbb{R}^2} |v|^{p+1}dx.
\]
If the second variation of $I_0$ at $w$
is nondegenerate and if $f$ is small,
then we may construct the solution $v$ of (\ref{eqn;p-NE})
bifurcating
from the mountain pass solution $w$.
This is not always possible,
since the kernel of the Hessian of $I_0$ at $w$ is nontrivial.
If we restrict the
class of initial data, however,
there is a possibility of constructing
the second local-in-time solution of \eqref{eqn;pKS}.
In this paper, we shall show that this is indeed possible under
the radially symmetric setting.
Also it should be noted that our problem is related to the
unconditional uniqueness problem in the general nonlinear evolution equations.
Let $X$ be a Banach space.
If an initial value problem admits the unique solution in the class $C([0,T);X)$
with initial data in $X$,
then we call the {\it unconditional uniqueness} holds for this problem.
If the class of the solution is reasonably restricted,
the unconditional uniqueness is expected to hold for the well-posed problem.
For our problem \eqref{eqn;pKS}, however,
there is no possibility to have the unconditional uniqueness
by restricting the regularity.
Namely,
no matter how the class of the solution is restricted from the regularity point of view,
at least two solutions for \eqref{eqn;pKS} do exist.
Only the variational characterization of the second component $v$
distinguishes two solutions
and the uniqueness class is not definable by means of function spaces.
In this sense, the unconditional uniqueness never holds for \eqref{eqn;pKS}.
This kind of phenomena may occur for a general nonlinear problem.
In our particular setting, there exists at least two time dependent solutions
and are uniquely continued in time
each other under the variational restriction.
We use the following notation. The Lebesgue space $L^p(\mathbb{R}^2)$ is
denoted by $L^p$ with $1\le p\le \infty$ with the norm $\|\cdot \|_p$.
For $k=1,2,\cdots$
and for
$1\le p\le \infty$, let
$W^{k,p}=W^{k,p}(\mathbb{R}^2)$ be the Sobolev space with the
norm $\|f\|_p+\|\nabla f\|_p$. We frequently use $H^1=W^{1,2}(\mathbb{R}^2)$, and
$L^2_r$ and
$H^1_r$ denote the radially symmetric subspaces of $L^2$ and $H^1$,
respectively.
$(H^1_r)^*$ denotes
the dual space of $H^1_r$.
For a Banach space $X$, $B_{\delta,X}$ stands for the open ball in $X$ with the
radius $\delta>0$ and
the center $0$.
The constant $C$ may vary from line to line.
\section{Variational Structure of the Lagrangian Functional}
\label{sec03}
The existence of multiple positive solutions for the semilinear
elliptic equation
\begin{equation}
-\Delta v+v=v^p+f , \quad x\in \mathbb{R}^2 \label{eqn;Pf}
\end{equation}
is known for small nonnegative external
forces
$f \not\equiv 0$ in $H^{-1}$,
see e.g. Zhu \cite{Zh} and Cao-Zhou \cite{C-Z}.
According to their results,
there exists a solution of (\ref{eqn;Pf}) for small $f$
(in the $H^{-1}$ sense)
which is not a local minimizer of the functional
$I_f$ defined by
\begin{equation*}
I_f(v)=\frac{1}{2}\int_{\mathbb{R}^2} |\nabla v|^2dx
+\frac{1}{2}\int_{\mathbb{R}^2}
|v|^2dx-\frac{1}{p+1}\int_{\mathbb{R}^2} |v|^{p+1}
-\int_{\mathbb{R}^2}f vdx,\quad v \in H^1(\mathbb{R}^2).
\end{equation*}
In this section, we give some analysis on the dependence of
this non-minimal solution with respect to $f$,
namely, we show some refined results
compared to those
of
Zhu \cite{Zh} and Cao-Zhou \cite{C-Z} from a bifurcation
theoretical point of view.
As is mentioned in the introduction,
the nonlinear elliptic problem (\ref{eqn;Pf})
with $f\equiv 0$,
\begin{equation}
-\Delta v+v=v^p, \quad x\in \mathbb{R}^2, \label{eqn;P0}
\end{equation}
has
a radially symmetric positive unique solution $w$ \cite{BeLi,GNN,Kw01}.
This solution is obtained as a critical point of the
variational functional $I_0$
by the well known mountain pass lemma in $H^1$.
Note that the Hessian operator
of $I_0$ at $u\in H^1$ is realized by $L_u:=-\Delta+1-p|u|^{p-1}$,
which is an operator from $H^1$ to $H^{-1}$.
As for the kernel of the linearized operator $L_w$ at $w$,
the following is well-known (see e.g. \cite{CdP01, D01, Fei01, NiTa01}).
\begin{proposition}[Kernel of the linearized operator]\label{prop:main}
For the radially symmetric positive unique
solution $w$ to {\rm (\ref{eqn;P0})},
$\ker L_w$, the kernel of the operator
$L_w = -\Delta+1-p|w|^{p-1}$, is spanned by $\partial_{x_1} w$
and $\partial_{x_2} w$.
In particular, $\ker L_w \cap H^1_r = \{ 0 \}$.
\end{proposition}
According to Proposition \ref{prop:main},
we may construct a solution branch of
the nonminimal solution of (\ref{eqn;Pf}) with the aid of
the implicit function theorem if we restrict our problem
to the class of
radially symmetric functions.
\begin{proposition}\label{prop:conti}
There exists $\delta>0$ and $h\in C(B_{\delta,(H^1_r)^*};H^1_r)$
such that
$h(f)$ is a critical point of $I_f$
which is not a local minimum
for $f \in B_{\delta,(H^1_r)^*}$
with $h(0)=w$.
Moreover, $h$ is a Lipschitz continuous
mapping in $B_{\delta,(H^1_r)^*}$, namely, there exists $C>0$ such that
\begin{equation}
\|h(f_1)-h(f_2)\|_{H^1} 0$ is chosen to be small later.
For a nonnegative function
$a\in L^2_r$, we define a map
\begin{equation*}\label{eqn;sol-op}
\Phi_a:X_{T,M} \ni f \mapsto u\in X_{T,M},
\end{equation*}
where $u$ is the solution of the following system:
\begin{equation}
\begin{gathered}
\partial_tu - \Delta u+ \nabla\cdot (u \nabla v)=0,\quad t>0,\; x\in\mathbb{R}^2, \\
-\Delta v+v=v^p+f,\quad t>0,\; x\in\mathbb{R}^2,\\
u(0,x) =a(x), \quad x\in\mathbb{R}^2.
\end{gathered} \label{eqn;DS3}
\end{equation}
Here we choose the solution $v(t)$ of the elliptic part of the above
system as $h(f(t))$ where $h$ is a map constructed in Corollary
\ref{cor:conti}. Note that $\Phi_a$ is well defined by virtue of
Corollary \ref{cor:conti},
since $\sup_{\tau\in [0,T)}\|f(\tau)\|_2\le |\!|\!| f|\!|\!| _X\leq M<\rho$.
It is also easy to see that Corollary \ref{cor:conti} yields
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\sup_{\tau\in [0,T)}\|h(f(\tau))\|_{H^1}
\leq &
\sup_{\tau\in[0,T)}\|h(f(\tau))-h(0)\|_{H^1}+\|h(0)\|_{H^1}\\
\leq &
C\sup_{\tau\in [0,T)}\|f(\tau)-0\|_2+\|w\|_{H^1} \\
\leq & CM+\|w\|_{H^1}=:\sigma,
\end{split}
\label{eq:hbd02}
\end{equation}
where $w$ is the unique, radially symmetric positive
function satisfying $-\Delta w+w=w^p$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$.
Hereafter for $f$ and $\bar{f}\in X_{T,M}$, we denote $h(f(\tau))$
and $h(\bar{f}(\tau))$ by
$v(\tau)$ and $\bar{v}(\tau)$ (or simply $v$ and $\bar{v}$), respectively.
Our first lemma is as follows.
\begin{lemma}\label{lem:wb}
For any $q \ge 2$, there exists a constant $C_q>0$ such that
\begin{gather}
\|v(\tau)\|_{W^{1,q}}