Partial regularity of weak solutions and life-span of smooth solutions to a biological network formulation model

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Abstract: In this paper we first study partial regularity of weak solutions to the initial boundary value problem for the system −mboxdivleft[(I+mathbfmotimesmathbfm)ablapight]=S(x),partialtmathbfm−D2Deltamathbfm−E2(mathbfmcdotablap)ablap+|mathbfm|2(gamma−1)mathbfm=0, where S(x) is a given function and D,E,gamma are given numbers. This problem has been proposed as a PDE model for biological transportation networks. Mathematically, it seems to have a connection to a conjecture by De Giorgi cite{DE}. Then we investigate the life-span of classical solutions. Our results show that local existence of a classical solution can always be obtained and the life-span of such a solution can be extended as far away as one wishes as long as the term is made suitably small, where N is the space dimension and |cdot|q,Omega denotes the norm in Lq(Omega).




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