Global Strong Solutions for the Ternary Maxwell-Stefan Diffusion System

Abstract

We prove global strong well-posedness for the normalized isothermal, isobaric ternary Maxwell-Stefan diffusion system on bounded $C^{2+{\alpha }_0}$ domains, for arbitrary positive constant binary frictions and compatible nonnegative initial data, without a smallness condition. For distinct frictions, trace--determinant variables produce two separated spectral roots satisfying scalar parabolic equations with antisymmetric quadratic coupling. Euler-Poisson-Darboux one-sided truncations, stabilized by the mixing entropy, yield boundary De Giorgi oscillation decay and positive-time Hölder regularity. The mixing-entropy Hessian then provides a local symmetrizer; conormal Schauder estimates give uniform $C^{1+a}$ control, and frozen maximal $L_p$-regularity yields a uniform terminal trace bound excluding finite-time breakdown. Repeated frictions reduce to triangular scalar parabolic systems. Every component with positive conserved mass is strictly positive for positive time.