Unboundedness phenomenon in a model of urban crime

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Hauptverfasser: Fuest, Mario, Heihoff, Frederic
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author Fuest, Mario
Heihoff, Frederic
author_facet Fuest, Mario
Heihoff, Frederic
contents We show that spatial patterns ("hotspots") may form in the crime model \begin{equation} \left\{\; \begin{aligned} u_{t} &= \tfrac{1}{\varepsilon}Δu - \tfracχ{\varepsilon} \nabla \cdot \left(\tfrac{u}{v} \nabla v \right) - \varepsilon uv, \\ v_{t} &= Δv - v + u v, \end{aligned} \right. \end{equation} which we consider in $Ω= B_R(0) \subset \mathbb R^n$, $R > 0$, $n \geq 3$ with $\varepsilon > 0$, $χ> 0$ and initial data $u_0$, $v_0$ with sufficiently large initial mass $m := \int_Ωu_0$. More precisely, for each $T > 0$ and fixed $Ω$, $χ$ and (large) $m$, we construct initial data $v_0$ exhibiting the following unboundedness phenomenon: Given any $M>0$, we can find $\varepsilon > 0$ such that the first component of the associated maximal solution becomes larger than $M$ at some point in $Ω$ before the time $T$. Since the $L^1$ norm of $u$ is decreasing, this implies that some heterogeneous structure must form. We do this by first constructing classical solutions to the nonlocal scalar problem \[ w_t = Δw + m \frac{w^{χ+1}}{\int_Ωw^χ} \] from the solutions to the crime model by taking the limit $\varepsilon \searrow 0$ under the assumption that the unboundedness phenomenon explicitly does not occur on some interval $(0,T)$. We then construct initial data for this scalar problem leading to blow-up before time $T$. As solutions to the scalar problem are unique, this proves our central result by contradiction.
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spellingShingle Unboundedness phenomenon in a model of urban crime
Fuest, Mario
Heihoff, Frederic
Analysis of PDEs
35B36 (primary), 35B44, 35K40, 35K58, 91D10 (secondary)
We show that spatial patterns ("hotspots") may form in the crime model \begin{equation} \left\{\; \begin{aligned} u_{t} &= \tfrac{1}{\varepsilon}Δu - \tfracχ{\varepsilon} \nabla \cdot \left(\tfrac{u}{v} \nabla v \right) - \varepsilon uv, \\ v_{t} &= Δv - v + u v, \end{aligned} \right. \end{equation} which we consider in $Ω= B_R(0) \subset \mathbb R^n$, $R > 0$, $n \geq 3$ with $\varepsilon > 0$, $χ> 0$ and initial data $u_0$, $v_0$ with sufficiently large initial mass $m := \int_Ωu_0$. More precisely, for each $T > 0$ and fixed $Ω$, $χ$ and (large) $m$, we construct initial data $v_0$ exhibiting the following unboundedness phenomenon: Given any $M>0$, we can find $\varepsilon > 0$ such that the first component of the associated maximal solution becomes larger than $M$ at some point in $Ω$ before the time $T$. Since the $L^1$ norm of $u$ is decreasing, this implies that some heterogeneous structure must form. We do this by first constructing classical solutions to the nonlocal scalar problem \[ w_t = Δw + m \frac{w^{χ+1}}{\int_Ωw^χ} \] from the solutions to the crime model by taking the limit $\varepsilon \searrow 0$ under the assumption that the unboundedness phenomenon explicitly does not occur on some interval $(0,T)$. We then construct initial data for this scalar problem leading to blow-up before time $T$. As solutions to the scalar problem are unique, this proves our central result by contradiction.
title Unboundedness phenomenon in a model of urban crime
topic Analysis of PDEs
35B36 (primary), 35B44, 35K40, 35K58, 91D10 (secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.01016