Boundedness and large time behavior in a quasilinear chemotaxis model for tumor invasion
This paper deals with the quasilinear chemotaxis system modeling tumor invasion [Formula: see text] under homogenous Neumann boundary conditions in a smoothly convex bounded domain [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is a given function satisfying [Formula: see text] for all [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. Here the matrix-valued function [Formula: see text] fulfills [Formula: see text] for all [Formula: see text] with some [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. It is shown that for all reasonably regular initial data, a corresponding initial-boundary value problem for this system possesses a globally defined weak solution under some assumptions. Based on this boundedness property, it can finally be proved that in the large time limit, any such solution approaches the spatially homogenous equilibrium [Formula: see text] in an appropriate sense, where [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] provided that merely [Formula: see text] on [Formula: see text]. To the best of our knowledge, there are the first results on boundedness and asymptotic behavior of the system.