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A non-linear problem arising in the study of an age-dependent population diffusion is considered. Existence and uniqueness results together with a priori bounds for the growth of the population are obtained. Moreover the solutions are shown to depend continuously on the initial data.
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This work was done under the auspices of the G.N.A.F.A. of the National Research Council.
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Di Blasio, G. Non-linear age-dependent population diffusion. J. Math. Biology 8, 265–284 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00276312
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00276312