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We consider a chemo-repulsion model with quadratic production in a bounded domain. Firstly, we obtain global in time weak solutions, and give a regularity criterion (which is satisfied for $1D$ and $2D$ domains) to deduce uniqueness and…

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We study, in Part I of this series, boundedness and global existence of positive classical solutions to a parabolic-elliptic chemotaxis system with signal-dependent sensitivity and a logistic-type source on a bounded smooth domain…

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Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain in ${\mathbb R}^N$ and $T>0$. We study the problem \begin{equation} (P)\left\{ \begin{array}{lll} u_t - \Delta u \pm g(u) &= \mu \quad &\text{in } Q_T:=\Omega \times (0,T) \\ \phantom{------,} u&=0 &\text{on…

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