Infinite-time concentration in aggregation–diffusion equations with a given potential

Typically, aggregation-diffusion is modeled by parabolic equations that combine linear or nonlinear diffusion with a Fokker-Planck convection term. Under very general suitable assumptions, we prove that radial solutions of the evolution process converge asymptotically in time towards a stationary state representing the balance between the two effects. Our parabolic system is the gradient flow of an energy functional, and in fact we show that the stationary states are minimizers of a relaxed energy. Here, we study radial solutions of an aggregation-diffusion model that combines nonlinear fast diffusion with a convection term driven by the gradient of a potential, both in balls and the whole space. We show that, depending on the exponent of fast diffusion and the potential, the steady state is given by the sum of an explicit integrable function, plus a Dirac delta at the origin containing the rest of the mass of the initial datum. This splitting phenomenon is an uncommon example of blow-up in infinite timeThe authors are thankful to the anonymous referee for the detailed reading of the manuscript, and their insightful suggestions. The research of JAC and DGC was supported by the Advanced Grant Nonlocal-CPD (Nonlocal PDEs for Complex Particle Dynamics: Phase Transitions, Patterns and Synchronization) of the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 883363). JAC was partially supported by EPSRC grant number EP/T022132/1. The research of JLV was partially supported by grant PGC2018-098440-B-I00 from the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades of the Spanish Government. JLV was an Honorary Professor at Univ. Complutens