Global existence for reaction-diffusion systems with nonlinear diffusion and control of mass (Q523071)

The authors study some reaction-diffusion systems with natural structure conditions on the nonlinear reactive terms which provide positivity of the solutions and uniform control of the total mass. The diffusion operators are nonlinear, of the type of the porous media operators. The global existence in time of weak solutions is proved under the assumption that the reactive terms are bounded in \(L^1\). This previous results of existence were proved under the assumption of linear diffusion operators.