WIAS Preprint No. 2832, (2021)

Well-posedness for a class of phase-field systems modeling prostate cancer growth with fractional operators and general nonlinearities



Authors

  • Colli, Pierluigi
    ORCID: 0000-0002-7921-5041
  • Gilardi, Gianni
    ORCID: 0000-0002-0651-4307
  • Sprekels, Jürgen
    ORCID: 0009-0000-0618-8604

2020 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 35Q92 35R11 35K51 35K58 92C37

Keywords

  • Phase-field model, fractional operators, semilinear parabolic system, well-posedness, prostate tumor growth

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2832

Abstract

This paper deals with a general system of equations and conditions arising from a mathematical model of prostate cancer growth with chemotherapy and antiangiogenic therapy that has been recently introduced and analyzed (see [P. Colli et al., Mathematical analysis and simulation study of a phase-field model of prostate cancer growth with chemotherapy and antiangiogenic therapy effects, Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. bf 30 (2020), 1253--1295]). The related system includes two evolutionary operator equations involving fractional powers of selfadjoint, nonnegative, unbounded linear operators having compact resolvents. Both equations contain nonlinearities and in particular the equation describing the dynamics of the tumor phase variable has the structure of a Allen--Cahn equation with double-well potential and additional nonlinearity depending also on the other variable, which represents the nutrient concentration. The equation for the nutrient concentration is nonlinear as well, with a term coupling both variables. For this system we design an existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence theory by setting up a careful analysis which allows the consideration of nonsmooth potentials and the treatment of continuous nonlinearities with general growth properties.

Appeared in

  • Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei Rend. Lincei Mat. Appl., 33 (2022), pp. 193--228, DOI 10.4171/rlm/969 .

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