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# An evolution system for a class of age-structured diffusive population equations

• Kato's theory on the construction of strongly continuous evolution systems associated with hyperbolic equations is applied to the linear equation describing an age-structured population that is subject to time-dependent diffusion. The evolution system is used to provide conditions for the well-posedness of the corresponding quasilinear equation.

Mathematics Subject Classification: 47D06, 35K90, 35M10, 92D25.

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