Global attractors for cross diffusion systems on domains of arbitrary dimension (Q2478048)

A class of triangular cross diffusion systems: \[ \begin{aligned} {\partial u\over\partial t}&= \nabla(P(x,u, v)\nabla u+ R(x,u,v)\nabla v)+ g(u, v)\\ {\partial v\over\partial t}&= \nabla(Q(x, v)\nabla v)+ c(x)v+ f (u, v),\quad x\in\Omega,\;t> 0,\end{aligned} \] with mixed boundary conditions for \(x\in\partial\Omega\) and \(t> 0\) is considered, where \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n\) is an open bounded domain and \(n\geq 1\). There global existence of solutions is shown, and long time dynamics of the solutions is studied. Roughly speaking, there is established the following: A solution \((u, v)\) exists globally in time if the norms \(\| v(\cdot, t)\|_\infty\) and \(\| u(\cdot, t)\|_{n/2}\), or even \(\| u(\cdot, t)\|_1\), do not blow up in finite time. Moreover, if these norms of the solutions are ultimately uniformly bounded, then an absorbing set exists, and therefore there is a compact global attractor, with finite Hausdorff dimension, attracting all solutions. The general result is then applied to several cross diffusion parabolic systems modeling biological and ecological phenomena. In many similar papers for such systems the authors assume some restriction on the dimension of \(\Omega\), this paper gives global existence result without any restriction on the dimension of \(\Omega\) or the size of initial data.