The global existence of mass-conserving weak solutions to the Safronov- Dubovskii coagulation equation is shown for the coagulation kernels satisfying at most linear growth for large sizes. In contrast to previous works, the proof mainly relies on the de la Vall ́ee-Poussin theorem [8, Theorem 7.1.6], which only requires the finiteness of the first moment of the initial condition. By showing the necessary regularity of solutions, it is shown that the weak solutions con- structed herein are indeed classical solutions. Under additional restrictions on the initial data, the uniqueness of solutions is also shown. Finally, the continu- ous dependence on the initial data and the large-time behaviour of solutions are also addressed.
Mathematics Subject Classification(2020). Primary: 34A12, 34K30, 47J35; Secondary: 46B50.