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November 2018, 38(11): 5943-5961. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2018258

Global existence and boundedness in a chemorepulsion system with superlinear diffusion

Marcel Freitag ^,

Institut für Mathematik, Universität Paderborn, 33098 Paderborn, Germany

* Corresponding author: Marcel Freitag

Received May 2018 Revised June 2018 Published August 2018

Fund Project: The author is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

In a bounded domain

$\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$

, where

$n\ge 3$

, we consider the quasilinear parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel system

$\begin{equation*}\begin{cases}u_t = \nabla\cdot({D(u)\nabla u+u\nabla v}) \;\;\; &\text{in}\ \Omega\times(0,\infty)\\v_t = \Delta v-v+u &\text{in}\ \Omega\times(0,\infty)\end{cases}\end{equation*}$

with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. We will find that the condition

$D(u)\geq Cu^{m-1}$

suffices to prove the uniqueness and global existence of solutions along with their boundedness if

$D(0)>0$

and

$m>1+\frac{(n-2)(n-1)}{n^2}$

which is a very different result from what we know about the same system with nonnegative sensitivity. In the case of degenerate diffusion (

$D(0) = 0$

) and for the same parameters, locally bounded global weak solutions will be established.

Keywords: Classical solutions, blow-up, nonlinear parabolic equations, critical exponents, cell movement (chemotaxis, etc.).

Mathematics Subject Classification: 35A09, 35B44, 35K35, 35B33, 92C17.

Citation: Marcel Freitag. Global existence and boundedness in a chemorepulsion system with superlinear diffusion. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2018, 38 (11) : 5943-5961. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2018258

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[4]	T. Cieślak, Quasilinear nonuniformly parabolic system modeling chemotaxis, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 326 (2007), 1410-1426. doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2006.03.080.
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[9]	K. Fujie, A. Ito, M. Winkler and T. Yokota, Stabilization in a chemotaxis model for tumor invasion, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 36 (2016), 151-169. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016.36.151.
[10]	H. Gajewski and K. Zacharias, Global behaviour of a reaction diffusion system modelling chemotaxis, Math. Nachr., 195 (1998), 77-114. doi: 10.1002/mana.19981950106.
[11]	M. A. Herrero and J. J. L. Velázquez, A blow-up mechanism for a chemotaxis model, Ann. Scuola Normale Superiore, 24 (1997), 633-683.
[12]	T. Hillen and K. J. Painter, Volume-filling and quorum-sensing in models for chemosensitive movement, Can. Appl. Math. Q., 10 (2002), 501-543.
[13]	T. Hillen and K. J. Painter, A user's guide to PDE models for chemotaxis, J. Math Biol., 58 (2009), 183-217. doi: 10.1007/s00285-008-0201-3.
[14]	D. Horstmann and G. Wang, Blow-up in a chemotaxis model without symmetry assumptions, Eur J. Appl. Math., 12 (2001), 159-177. doi: 10.1017/S0956792501004363.
[15]	D. Horstmann and M. Winkler, Boundedness vs! blow-up in a chemotaxis system, Journal of Differential Equations, 215 (2015), 52-107. doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2004.10.022.
[16]	E. F. Keller and L. A. Segel, Initiation of slime mold aggregation viewed as an instability, J. Theoret. Biol., 26 (1970), 399-415. doi: 10.1016/0022-5193(70)90092-5.
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