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This paper is concerned with global existence of classical solutions as well as occurrence of infinite-time blowups to the following fully parabolic system
in a smooth bounded domain \(\varOmega \subset {\mathbb {R}}^n\), \(n\ge 1\) with no-flux boundary conditions. This model was recently proposed in Fu et al. (Phys Rev Lett 108:198102, 2012) and Liu et al. (Science 334:238, 2011) to describe the process of stripe pattern formations via the so-called self-trapping mechanism. The system features a signal-dependent motility function \(\gamma (\cdot )\), which is decreasing in v and will vanish as v tends to infinity. An essential difficulty in analysis comes from the possible degeneracy as \(v\nearrow \infty .\) In this work we develop a novel comparison method to tackle the degeneracy issue, which greatly differs from the conventional energy method in literature. An explicit point-wise upper-bound estimate for v is obtained for the first time, which shows that v(x, t) grows point-wisely at most exponentially in time. An intrinsic mechanism is then unveiled that the finite-time degeneracy is prohibited in any spatial dimension with a generic decreasing \(\gamma \). With such new findings, we further study global existence of classical solutions when \(n\le 3\) and discuss uniform-in-time boundedness when \(\gamma (\cdot )\) decreases algebraically at large signal concentrations. Besides, a new critical-mass phenomenon in dimension two is observed if \(\gamma (v)=e^{-v}\). Indeed, we prove that the classical solution always exists globally and remains uniformly-in-time bounded in the sub-critical case, while in the super-critical case a blowup may take place in infinite time rather than finite time.
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K. Fujie is supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists; No. 19K14576). J. Jiang is supported by Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation under the Grant No. 2020CFB602.
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Fujie, K., Jiang, J. Comparison methods for a Keller–Segel-type model of pattern formations with density-suppressed motilities. Calc. Var. 60, 92 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-021-01943-5
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