Asymptotic stability in a fully parabolic quasilinear chemotaxis model with general logistic source and signal production (Q2304445)

In this paper the authors study the asymptotic behaviors of global solutions to the fully parabolic chemotaxis system: \begin{align*} u_t &=\nabla \cdot(D(u)\nabla u-S(u)\nabla v)+ru-\mu u^{1+ \sigma} ,\\ v_t &= \Delta v- v +u^\gamma, \end{align*} subject to the homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions in a bounded and smooth domain \(\Omega\) contained in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) with \(n \geq 2\), where parameters \(\mu, \sigma, \gamma > 0\), \(r \in \mathbb{R}\), and the nonlinearity \( D, S \in C^2([0,\infty))\) are supposed to generalize the prototypes \[ D(u) \geq a_0(u + 1)^{-\alpha}, \quad 0 \leq S(u) \leq b_0u(u + 1)^{\beta-1} \] with \(a_0\), \(b_0 > 0\) and \(\alpha, \beta \in \mathbb{R}\). The authors first consider the case of \(r > 0\) and get a boundedness result under suitable assumptions on the parameters. Then they prove the asymptotic stability when damping effects of logistic source are strong enough. Specifically, there is \(\mu_0 > 0\) independent of initial data, such that the bounded classical solution \((u, v)\) satisfies \[ (u, v) \rightarrow \big( \big( r/\mu\big)^{\frac{1}{\sigma}}, \big( r/\mu\big)^{\frac{\gamma}{\sigma}}\big) \] in \(L^\infty(\Omega)\) exponentially under conditions of \(\mu > \mu_0\) and \(r > 0\). For the case of \( r < 0\), the trivial constant equilibria in the model is obtained in a priori way, regardless of the size of \(\mu > 0\).