arXiv · 2609.23448
Nonlinear stability of composite waves of traveling wave and rarefaction wave for a parabolic-hyperbolic system arising from chemotaxis
Abstract
We study the nonlinear stability of a composite wave consisting of a traveling wave and a rarefaction wave for a parabolic-hyperbolic system arising from chemotaxis. We prove that if the initial value is a small $H^1$-type perturbation of composite wave, then the system admits a global solution that converges toward the composite wave with an absolutely continuous shift. The proof combines the weighted relative-entropy mechanism for viscous shocks with the energy structure of rarefaction waves. A key ingredient is the inclusion of a rarefaction modulation factor in the weighted relative entropy; its derivatives combine with the terms generated by the rarefaction profile to produce a rarefaction dissipation. Moreover, the spatial separation of the two waves yields time-integrable interaction errors caused by the non-exact superposition. Since diffusion acts only on the density component, the full $H^1$ estimate is closed by exploiting the coupling structure of the system to recover the missing dissipation of the hyperbolic component.
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Sitong Liu, Jingyu Li. 2026-09-20. Nonlinear stability of composite waves of traveling wave and rarefaction wave for a parabolic-hyperbolic system arising from chemotaxis. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23448
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