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Global existence and boundedness of HIV chemotaxis model with nonlinear diffusions
AIMS Mathematics 2026, 11(4): 10257-10273
Published: 15 April 2026
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This paper investigates a class of reaction-diffusion models that describing the chemotactic movement of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) in HIV-1 infection, thereby incorporating nonlinear diffusion mechanisms for CD 4 + T cells, infected cells, and CTLs. Assuming that the CTL diffusion coefficient satisfies D 3 ( w ) D ^ ( w + 1 ) θ with θ > 1, and the chemotactic sensitivity function satisfies | χ ( w ) | χ ^ w ( 1 + w ) η 1 with η 1, this study proves, via energy estimates, semigroup techniques, and the Moser iteration, provided θ > 1 and η 1, that the classical solutions globally-exist and are unique and uniformly bounded for any spatial dimension n 1. The results demonstrate that a sufficiently strong nonlinear diffusion (with θ > 1) can effectively suppress chemotaxis-driven instability, thus ensuring the boundedness of the systems long-term behavior. This research provides mathematical theoretical support to understand the regulatory role of immune chemotactic movement in viral dynamics.

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