Unboundedness phenomenon in a model of urban crime

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  • Mario Fuest
  • Frederic Heihoff

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Original languageEnglish
Article number2350032
JournalCommunications in Contemporary Mathematics
Early online date29 Jul 2023
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 29 Jul 2023
Externally publishedYes

Abstract

We show that spatial patterns ("hotspots") may form in the crime model ut = 1 u -χ u vv - uv,vt = v - v + uv, which we consider in ω = BR(0) n, R > 0, n ≥ 3 with > 0, χ > 0 and initial data u0, v0 with sufficiently large initial mass m:= ωu0. More precisely, for each T > 0 and fixed ω, χ and (large) m, we construct initial data v0 exhibiting the following unboundedness phenomenon: Given any M > 0, we can find > 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 L1 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 wt = w + m ωwχ-1wχ+1, from the solutions to the crime model by taking the limit 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.

Keywords

    Chemotaxis, logarithmic sensitivity, singular limit, urban crime

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Unboundedness phenomenon in a model of urban crime. / Fuest, Mario; Heihoff, Frederic.
In: Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, 29.07.2023.

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Fuest M, Heihoff F. Unboundedness phenomenon in a model of urban crime. Communications in Contemporary Mathematics. 2023 Jul 29;2350032. Epub 2023 Jul 29. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2109.01016, 10.1142/S0219199723500323
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