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We establish the uniqueness and regularity of weak (and very weak) solutions to a class of cross diffusion systems which is inspired by models in mathematical biology/ecology, in particular the Shigesada–Kawasaki–Teramoto model in population biology. No boundedness assumption on these solutions is supposed here as known techniques for scalar equations such as maximum/comparison principles are generally unavailable for systems. Furthermore, for planar domains we show that unbounded weak solutions satisfying mild integrability conditions are in fact smooth.
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Le, D. Uniqueness and regularity of unbounded weak solutions to a class of cross diffusion systems. Nonlinear Differ. Equ. Appl. 28, 24 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00030-021-00684-w
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