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GLOBAL EXISTENCE FOR A KINETIC MODEL OF CHEMOTAXIS VIA DISPERSION AND STRICHARTZ ESTIMATES. ´ NIKOLAOS BOURNAVEAS, VINCENT CALVEZ, SUSANA GUTIERREZ, ˆ AND BENOIT PERTHAME Abstract. We investigate further the existence of solutions to kinetic mod- els of chemotaxis. These are nonlinear transport-scattering equations with a quadratic nonlinearity which have been used to describe the motion of bacte- ria since the 80’s when experimental observations have shown they move by a series of ’run and tumble’. The existence of solutions has been obtained in several papers [CMPS, HKS1, HKS3] using direct and strong dispersive effects. Here, we use the weak dispersion estimates of [CP] to prove global existence in various situations depending on the turning kernel. In the most difficult cases, where both the velocities before and after tumbling appear, with the known methods, only Strichartz estimates can give a result, with a smallness assumption. To appear in CPDE 1. Introduction In this paper we study the Othmer-Dunbar-Alt kinetic model of chemotaxis and prove global existence of solutions under various assumptions on the turning kernel. This model was proposed in [Alt, ODA] for the description of the chemotactic movement of cells in the presence of a chemical substance and it can be thought of as the mesoscopic analogue of the famous Keller-Segel model [KS1, KS2, KS3, H, P3]. It was proposed in the 80’s, after the experimental obser