An aggregation model of cockroaches with fast-or-slow motion dichotomy.

Ján Eliaš, Hirofumi Izuhara, Masayasu Mimura, Bao Q Tang

Journal of mathematical biology 2022 Sep 13

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We propose a mathematical model, namely a reaction-diffusion system, to describe social behaviour of cockroaches. An essential new aspect in our model is that the dispersion behaviour due to overcrowding effect is taken into account as a counterpart to commonly studied aggregation. This consideration leads to an intriguing new phenomenon which has not been observed in the literature. Namely, due to the competition between aggregation towards areas of higher concentration of pheromone and dispersion avoiding overcrowded areas, the cockroaches aggregate more at the transition area of pheromone. Moreover, we also consider the fast reaction limit where the switching rate between active and inactive subpopulations tends to infinity. By utilising improved duality and energy methods, together with the regularisation of heat operator, we prove that the weak solution of the reaction-diffusion system converges to that of a reaction-cross-diffusion system. © 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

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Ján Eliaš, Hirofumi Izuhara, Masayasu Mimura, Bao Q Tang. An aggregation model of cockroaches with fast-or-slow motion dichotomy. Journal of mathematical biology. 2022 Sep 13;85(3):28