This paper deals with the attraction-repulsion chemotaxis system with nonlinear diffusion u t = ∇ · (D(u)∇u) − ∇ · (u (v)∇v) + ∇ · (u (w)∇w), 1 v t = Δv − 1 v + 1 u, 2 w t = Δw − 2 w + 2 u, subject to the homogenous Neumann boundary conditions, in a smooth bounded domain Ω ⊂ R n (n ⩾ 2), where the coefficients i , i , and i ∈ {0, 1}(i = 1, 2) are positive. The function D fulfills D(u) ⩾ C D u m−1 for all u > 0 with certain C D > 0 and m > 1. For the parabolic-elliptic-elliptic case in the sense that 1 = 2 = 0 and = 1, we obtain that for any m > 2 − 2 n and all sufficiently smooth initial data u 0 , the model possesses at least one global weak solution under suitable conditions on the functions and . Under the assumption m > − 2 n , it is also proved that for the parabolic-parabolic-elliptic case in the sense that 1 = 1, 2 = 0, and ⩾ 2, the system possesses at least one global weak solution under different assumptions on the functions and .KEYWORDS attraction-repulsion, boundedness, chemotaxis, logistic source, weak solutionwhich also models the quorum sensing effect in the chemotactic movement (see Painter et al 2 ). Ω ⊂ R n (n ⩾ 2) is a bounded domain with smooth boundary Ω, denotes the differentiation with respect to the outward normal derivative 7368 ;40 7368-7395. : 2 n − for all u ⩾ 0 with some > 0 and c > 0, the corresponding solutions are global and bounded provided that D has algebraic upper and lower growth estimates as u → ∞. Wang et al 47 removed the condition of upper growth estimate of D in Tao et al. 44 More results about Cauchy problem are obtained (see previous studies 8,9,18,25,26,34,[48][49][50] ).Compared to the classical Keller-Segel chemotaxis (1.3), the coupled attraction-repulsion system (1.1) is much less understood because of the lack of Lyapunov functional. As for the system (1.1) with D ≡ 1, ≡ 0 and ≡ 0 , where the coefficients 0 , 0 are positive constants. When 1 , 2 = 0, the authors Hillen et al 42 and Jin et al 51 investigated the 2 −p 1 |Ω| ) C 7 .