# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

April  2018, 11(2): 397-408. doi: 10.3934/krm.2018018

## Regularity theorems for a biological network formulation model in two space dimensions

 Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA

Received  December 2016 Revised  May 2017 Published  January 2018

We present several regularity results for a biological network formulation model originally introduced by D. Cai and D. Hu [13]. A consequence of these results is that a stationary weak solution must be a classical one in two space dimensions. Our mathematical analysis is based upon the weakly monotone function theory and Hardy space methods.

Citation: Xiangsheng Xu. Regularity theorems for a biological network formulation model in two space dimensions. Kinetic & Related Models, 2018, 11 (2) : 397-408. doi: 10.3934/krm.2018018
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