Spectral instability and non-uniqueness of mild solutions for the Keller-Segel system

Abstract

We show that the Cauchy problem associated with the parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel model is locally ill-posed in $L^q(\mathbb{R}^n)$ for dimensions $n \in \{3,\dots,9\}$ and throughout the supercritical range $q\in [1,\frac{n}{2})$. The non-uniqueness is driven by an instability mechanism in self-similarity variables, in the spirit of the program proposed by Jia and Šverák for the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations.