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This paper establishes the global uniform-in-time boundedness of solutions to the following Keller-Segel system with signal-dependent diffusion and chemotaxis
in a bounded domain \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{N}(N\leq 4)\) with smooth boundary, where the density-dependent motility functions \(\gamma (v)\) and \(\phi (v)\) denote the diffusive and chemotactic coefficients, respectively. The model was originally proposed by Keller and Segel in (J. Theor. Biol. 30:225–234, 1970) to describe the aggregation phase of Dictyostelium discoideum cells, where the two motility functions satisfy a proportional relation \(\phi (v)=(\alpha -1)\gamma '(v)\) with \(\alpha >0\) denoting the ratio of effective body length (i.e. distance between receptors) to the step size. The major technical difficulty in the analysis is the possible degeneracy of diffusion. In this work, we show that if \(\gamma (v)>0\) and \(\phi (v)>0\) are smooth on \([0,\infty )\) and satisfy
then the above Keller-Segel system subject to Neumann boundary conditions admits classical solutions uniformly bounded in time. The main idea of proving our results is the estimates of a weighted functional \(\int _{\Omega }u^{p}v^{-q}dx\) for \(p>\frac{N}{2}\) by choosing a suitable exponent \(p\) depending on the unknown \(v\), by which we are able to derive a uniform \(L^{\infty }\)-norm of \(v\) and hence rule out the diffusion degeneracy.
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The authors are very grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions which greatly improved the exposition of this paper. The research of Z.A. Wang was supported by the Hong Kong RGC GRF grant No. 15303019 (Project ID P0030816) and an internal grant no. UAH0 from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The work of J. Zheng was partially supported by Shandong Provincial Science Foundation for Outstanding Youth (No. ZR2018JL005), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11601215) and Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2019M650927, 2019T120168).
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Wang, ZA., Zheng, J. Global Boundedness of the Fully Parabolic Keller-Segel System with Signal-Dependent Motilities. Acta Appl Math 171, 25 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10440-021-00392-8
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