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Uniqueness and non-uniqueness of stationary solutions of aggregation-diffusion equation

  • Speaker: Yao Yao (Georgia Tech)

  • Time: May 30, 2019, 14:30-15:30

  • Location: Conference Room 415, Hui Yuan 3#

In this talk, I will discuss a nonlocal aggregation equation with degenerate diffusion, which describes the mean-field limit of interacting particles driven by nonlocal interactions and localized repulsion. When the interaction potential is attractive, it is previously known that all stationary solutions must be radially decreasing up to a translation, but uniqueness (for a given mass) within this class was open, except for some special interaction potentials. For general attractive potentials, we show that the uniqueness/non-uniqueness criteria are determined by the power of the degenerate diffusion, with the critical power being m=2. Namely, for m>=2, we show the stationary solution for any given mass is unique for any attractive potential, by tracking the associated energy functional along a novel interpolation curve. And for 1