Special Session 56: 

New Lyapunov-like functional of 1D quasilinear parabolic chemotaxis system and its application

Kentarou Fujie
Tokyo University of Science
Japan
Co-Author(s):    Tomasz Cie\\`slak
Abstract:
We consider the fully parabolic 1d chemotaxis system with diffusion $1/(1+u)$. We prove that the above mentioned nonlinearity, despite being a natural candidate, is not critical. It means that for such a diffusion any initial condition, independently on the magnitude of mass, generates global-in-time solution. In order to prove our theorem we establish a new Lyapunov-like functional associated to the system. Moreover we will discuss boundedness of solutions. This talk is based on a joint work with Tomasz Cie\`slak.