CONDITION FOR KINK IMMOBILITY IN TRIGGER SYSTEMS WITH LIMITED ELIMINATION OF AN INHIBITOR

Both the direction and the velocity of kink movement through a distrib uted trigger system depend on governing parameters that describe exter nal factors affecting the system. Time and space scales for autocataly tic and inhibitory variables affect kink propagation as well. Coupled nonlinear one-dimensional equations were analyzed to estimate the diff erence in the governing parameters needed to stop a kink under conditi ons of zero and small but nonzero space scale for an inhibitory variab le.