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# Global boundedness for a $\mathit{\boldsymbol{N}}$-dimensional two species cancer invasion haptotaxis model with tissue remodeling

• * Corresponding author: Bin Liu

This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China grant 11971185

• This paper is concerned with the two species cancer invasion haptotaxis model with tissue remodeling

$$$\begin{cases} c_{1t} = \Delta c_1-\chi_1\nabla\cdot(c_1\nabla v)-\mu_{\rm EMT}c_1+\mu_1c_1(r_1-c_1^\kappa-c_2-v),\\ c_{2t} = \Delta c_2-\chi_2\nabla\cdot(c_2\nabla v)+\mu_{\rm EMT}c_1+\mu_2c_2(r_2-c_1-c_2^\kappa-v),\\ \tau m_t = \Delta m+c_1+c_2-m,\\ v_t = -mv+\eta v(1-c_1-c_2-v) \end{cases}\nonumber$$$

in a bounded and smooth domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N\;(N\geq1)$ with zero-flux boundary conditions for $c_1,c_2$ and $m$, where $\chi_i,\mu_i,r_i>0\;(i = 1,2)$, $\eta>0$, $\kappa\geq1$, $\tau\in\{0,1\}$, and $\mu_{\rm EMT} = \mu_{ \rm EMT}\left(c_1,c_2,m,v\right):[0,\infty)^4\rightarrow [0,\infty)$ is the epithelial-mesenchymal transition rate function such that $\mu_{\rm EMT}\leq\mu_M$ with some constant $\mu_M>0$. When $\kappa = 1$ and $N = 3$, by rasing the coupled a priori estimates of $c_1$ and $c_2$ in the following way $L^1(\Omega)\rightarrow L^2(\Omega)\rightarrow L^p(\Omega)\rightarrow L^\infty(\Omega)$ with any $p>2$, it is shown that for some appropriately regular and small initial data, the associated initial-boundary value problem possesses a unique globally bounded classical solution for suitably small $r_i$ and $\mu_M$. When $\kappa>1$ and $N\geq1$, by rasing the coupled a priori estimates of $c_1$ and $c_2$ from $L^1(\Omega)$ to $L^p(\Omega)$ with any $p>1$, then to $L^\infty(\Omega)$, it is proved that for any reasonably regular initial data, the corresponding initial-boundary value problem admits a unique globally bounded classical solution for arbitrary $r_i$ and $\mu_M$. The result for $\kappa = 1$ complements previously known one, and the result for $\kappa>1$ is new.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35K55; Secondary: 35A01, 35A09, 35B45, 92C17.

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