Stability of planar traveling waves in a Keller-Segel equation on an infinite strip domain

Abstract

A simplified model of the tumor angiogenesis can be described by a Keller-Segel equation \cite{FrTe,Le,Pe}. The stability of traveling waves for the one dimensional system has recently been known by \cite{JinLiWa,LiWa}. In this paper we consider the equation on the two dimensional domain $ (x, y) \in \mathbf R \times {\mathbf S^{\lambda}}$ for a small parameter $\lambda>0$ where $ \mathbf S^{\lambda}$ is the circle of perimeter $\lambda$. Then the equation allows a planar traveling wave solution of invading types. We establish the nonlinear stability of the traveling wave solution if the initial perturbation is sufficiently small in a weighted Sobolev space without a chemical diffusion. When the diffusion is present, we show a linear stability. Lastly, we prove that any solution with our front conditions eventually becomes planar under certain regularity conditions. The key ideas are to use the Cole-Hopf transformation and to apply the Poincar\'{e} inequality to handle with the two dimensional structure.