Global boundedness and large time behavior of a chemotaxis system with indirect signal absorption (Q2189771)

The authors study a chemotaxis system with indirect signal absorption under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions in a bounded domain of \(\mathbb{R}^n\) (\(n \geq 2\)) with smooth boundary. They assume that the term \(f(u)\) that characterizes the proliferation and the death of cells, has the form \(\mu(u-u^r)\). When \(\mu > 0\) they prove that for any \( r > n/2\), the system admits a globally bounded classical solution. However, when \(f (u) = \mu(u-u^2)\) with \(\mu > 0\) and \(n\geq 4\), they establish the global existence and the boundedness of the solution if \(\mu\) is suitably large. Moreover, by constructing suitable functionals,they study the asymtotic behaviour of the solution under suitable assumptions. Lastly, they prove that the solution of the system with \(\mu = 0\) is globally bounded if \(n \geq 3\) and the initial datum is small enough.