Boundedness in the higher-dimensional fully parabolic chemotaxis-competition system with loop (Q2211756)

This paper considers the two-species chemotaxis-competition system with loop: \[ \begin{cases} \partial_t u_1= d_1 \Delta u_1- \chi_{11} \nabla \cdot(u_1 \nabla v_1)-\chi_{12} \nabla \cdot (u_1 \nabla v_2) + \mu_1 u_1(1-u_1-a_1 u_2),\\ \partial_t u_2= d_2 \Delta u_2- \chi_{21} \nabla \cdot(u_2 \nabla v_1)-\chi_{22} \nabla \cdot (u_2 \nabla v_2) +\mu_2 u_2(1-u_2-a_2 u_1),\\ \partial_t v_1=d_3 \Delta v_1- \lambda_1 v_1+ \alpha_{11}u_1 +\alpha_{12}u_2,\\ \partial_t v_2=d_4 \Delta v_2- \lambda_2 v_2+ \alpha_{21}u_1 +\alpha_{22}u_2, \end{cases} \] subject to homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions in a smooth bounded domain \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^{3}\), where \(\chi_{ij}>0, \mu_i>0, a_i>0, \alpha_{ij}>0, \lambda_i>0, d_k>0 (i,j=1,2, k=1,2,3,4)\). The main contribution of this paper is to study the uniform boundedness of solutions of the two-species chemotaxis-competition system with loop in higher dimensionals. The authors establish the global boundedness of solutions in 3D space by giving a new coupled function, and selecting sufficiently large \(\mu_1\) and \(\mu_2\), and constructing a Gronwall type inequality. The proof of the theorem is delicate and seems to be right. This paper improves the global boundedness result to the 3D setting. This is a great work. The paper is well organized with a complete list of relevant references. The presentation of the paper is very clear. No typos was detected. I think it is a good paper. However, the conditions of \(\mu_1\) and \(\mu_2\) may be well improved. This will arouse more interest to relevant researchers to study the above system extensively.