Concentration of mass of solutions to aggregation-diffusion equations

Abstract

We consider the aggregation-diffusion equation in the whole space with a mildly singular interaction kernel K = K(x) which behaves like |x|^k near the origin for some k $\in$ (0, 2). This equation, supplemented with nonnegative, bounded, and integrable initial data, possesses a global-in-time solution. We prove that the family of nonnegative, radially symmetric solutions of this equation, all sharing the same initial datum, focuses around the origin over a common finite time interval as $\epsilon$ ___ 0.