A new McKean-Vlasov stochastic interpretation of the parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel model: The two-dimensional case

Abstract: In Talay and Tomasevic [20] we proposed a new stochastic interpretation of the parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel system without cutoff. It involved an original type of McKean-Vlasov interaction kernel which involved all the past time marginals of its probability distribution in a singular way. In the present paper, we study this McKean-Vlasov representation in the two-dimensional case. In this setting there exists a possibility of a blow-up in finite time for the Keller-Segel system if some parameters of the model are large. Indeed, we prove the well-posedness of the McKean-Vlasov equation under some constraints involving a parameter of the model and the initial datum. Under these constraints, we also prove the global existence for the Keller-Segel model in the plane. To obtain this result, we combine PDE analysis and stochastic analysis techniques.