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Boundedness and stabilization in a multi-dimensional chemotaxis—haptotaxis model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2014

Youshan Tao  and
Michael Winkler
Youshan Tao
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, Dong Hua University, Shanghai 200051, People's Republic of China, ([email protected])
Michael Winkler
Affiliation:
Institut für Mathematik, Universität Paderborn, 33098 Paderborn, Germany, ([email protected])
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Abstract

This paper deals with the coupled chemotaxis-haptotaxis model of cancer invasion given by

where χ, ξ and μ are positive parameters and Ω ⊂ ℝn (n ≥ 1) is a bounded domain with smooth boundary. Under zero-flux boundary conditions, it is shown that, for any μ > χ and any sufficiently smooth initial data (u0, w0) satisfying u0 ≥ 0 and w0 > 0, the associated initial–boundary-value problem possesses a unique global smooth solution that is uniformly bounded. Moreover, we analyse the stability and attractivity properties of the non-trivial homogeneous equilibrium (u, v, w) ≡ (1,1, 0) and establish a quantitative result relating the domain of attraction of this steady state to the size of μ. In particular, this will imply that whenever u0 > 0 and 0 < w0 < 1 in there exists a positive constant μ* depending only on χ, ξ, Ω, u0 and w0 such that for any μ < μ* the above global solution (u, v, w) approaches the spatially uniform state (1, 1, 0) as time goes to infinity.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 144 , Issue 5 , October 2014 , pp. 1067 - 1084
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2014 

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