Global boundedness of weak solutions for an attraction-repulsion chemotaxis system with p-Laplacian diffusion and nonlinear production (Q6155163)

Let \(\Omega\) be a bounded domain of \(\mathbb{R}^n\), \(n\ge 2\), \(p>1\), and \(\chi\), \(\xi\), \(\delta\), \(\beta\), \(\alpha\), \(\gamma\), \(k_1\), and \(k_2\) be positive parameters. The existence of a global and bounded weak solution is studied for the attraction-repulsion chemotaxis system with quasilinear diffusion \begin{align*} \partial_t u & = \mathrm{div}\big( |\nabla u|^{p-2} \nabla u - \chi u \nabla v + \xi u \nabla w \big) + f(u), \quad (t,x)\in (0,\infty)\times\Omega, \\ \partial_t v & = \Delta v - \beta v + \alpha u^{k_1}, \quad (t,x)\in (0,\infty)\times\Omega, \\ \partial_t w & = \Delta w - \delta w + \gamma u^{k_2},\quad (t,x)\in (0,\infty)\times\Omega, \end{align*} supplemented with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions and non-negative initial conditions \((u_0,v_0,w_0)\in W^{1,\infty}(\Omega)\times W^{2,\infty}(\Omega)\times W^{2,\infty}(\Omega)\). When \(f\equiv 0\), global existence of a bounded weak solution is shown when either \(p>p_* = \big[n\big( 2 + \max\{k_1,k_2\}\big)\big]/(n+1)\) for arbitrary initial conditions or \(p\in (1,p_*]\) and the \(L^q\)-norm of \(u_0\) is small with \(q=n \big( \max\{k_1,k_2\} - p + 2\big)/p\). When \(f(s) = \kappa s - \mu s^l\) for some \(\kappa\in\mathbb{R}\), \(\mu>0\), and \(l>1\), global existence of a bounded weak solution is shown when, either \(\max\{k_1,k_2\}<l-1\), or \(\max\{k_1,k_2\}=l-1\) and \(\mu\) is large enough. Similar results for \(p=2\) were already available in the literature.