Global boundedness of a two-species attraction-attraction chemotaxis model with bilinear boundary influx

Gurusamy Arumugam; Silvia Frassu; Kwancheol Shin; Giuseppe Viglialoro

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Global boundedness of a two-species attraction-attraction chemotaxis model with bilinear boundary influx

Gurusamy Arumugam·Silvia Frassu·Kwancheol Shin·Giuseppe Viglialoro

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Since its introduction, the Keller--Segel model has become a cornerstone in the mathematical theory of chemotaxis and it has generated extensive analytical activity. Most studies consider homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions, which ensure mass conservation and simplify the qualitative analysis of solutions. To the best of the authors' knowledge, at present chemotaxis models incorporating boundary conditions that generate inward fluxes have only been studied in two recent papers, and we believe that this topic deserves and it may attract further mathematical attention. In this sense, in the present paper we investigate a two-species chemotaxis system with positive total flux. The model consists of two interacting populations, $u$ and $w$, coupled through elliptic/parabolic chemical signals $v$ and $z$, and subject to Robin-type boundary conditions allowing inward fluxes that depend on the product of the cellular and chemical densities. Unlike the classical conservative setting, the total mass is not preserved and it exhibits quadratic growth in time, exactly in line with one of the investigations above mentioned and dealing with a single-species taxis model. We show that, within the considered framework, standard logistic damping is not sufficient to compensate for the mass increase induced by the positive boundary flux. To restore control of the dynamics, stronger dissipative mechanisms involving gradient-dependent damping terms are required. Under suitable assumptions, we establish the global existence and boundedness of classical solutions in the presence of logistic-gradient damping.

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Gurusamy Arumugam, Silvia Frassu, Kwancheol Shin, Giuseppe Viglialoro. 2026-07-03. Global boundedness of a two-species attraction-attraction chemotaxis model with bilinear boundary influx. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03306

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