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A relation between cross-diffusion and reaction-diffusion

• Reaction-diffusion system approximations to a cross-diffusion system are investigated. Iida and Ninomiya~[Recent Advances on Elliptic and Parabolic Issues, 145--164 (2006)] proposed a semilinear reaction-diffusion system with a small parameter and showed that the limit equation takes the form of a weakly coupled cross-diffusion system provided that solutions of both the reaction-diffusion and the cross-diffusion systems are sufficiently smooth. In this paper, the results are extended to a more general cross-diffusion problem involving strongly coupled systems. It is shown that a solution of the problem can be approximated by that of a semilinear reaction-diffusion system without any assumptions on the solutions. This indicates that the mechanism of cross-diffusion might be captured by reaction-diffusion interaction.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35K55, 35K57.

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