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Society for Mathematical Biology Conference
July 30 - August 2, 2008
Centre for Mathematical Medicine, Fields Institute
Toronto, Canada

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Organizing Committee: S.Sivaloganathan-Chair(Waterloo), M.Kohandel (Waterloo), I.Pressman(Carleton), F.Skinner(Toronto Western Research Inst.), H. Zhu(York)

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Weak solutions for a two-sidedly degenerate chemotaxis model with volume-filling effect related to the p-laplacian operator
by
Ricardo Ruiz Baier
Departamento de Ingenieria Matematica, Universidad de Concepcion, CHILE
Coauthors: Mostafa Bendahmane, Departamento de Ingenieria Matematica, Universidad de Concepcion, mostafab@ing-mat.udec.cl Raimund Bürger, Departamento de Ingenieria Matematica, Universidad de Concepcion, rburger@ing-mat.udec.cl José Miguel Urbano, Departamento de Matemática, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, jmurb@mat.uc.pt

We address the question of existence and Hölder regularity of weak solutions for a fully parabolic model for chemotaxis with volume-filling effect, that degenerates in a two-sided fashion, including a p-Laplacian diffusion term. The relevant system is suplemented with nonlinear Neumann boundary conditions. For the proof of existence of weak solutions we use a Schauder fixed-point argument on a regularized problem and the compactness method, and for the regularity, we use the rescaling method.

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Date received: December 10, 2007


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