Aggregation-Confinement-Diffusion Evolutions with Saturation: Regularity and Long-Time Asymptotics

Abstract

We establish H\"older regularity for the weak solution to a degenerate diffusion equation in the presence of a local (drift) potential and nonlocal (interaction) term, posed in a bounded domain with no-flux boundary conditions. The degeneracy is due to saturation, i.e., it occurs when the solution reaches its maximal value. As a byproduct of the established regularity and the underlying dissipative structure of the evolution, we prove the uniform convergence of contractive solutions to a stationary state as $t \to \infty$.