TY - JOUR T1 - Global Coupling of an Interface Problem in an Activator-inhibitor System AU - YoonMee Ham JO - Journal of Partial Differential Equations VL - 2 SP - 135 EP - 147 PY - 2003 DA - 2003/05 SN - 16 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jpde/5412.html KW - activator-inhibitor KW - van der Pol equation KW - global coupling KW - free boundary problem KW - Hopf bifurcation AB - An activator-inhibitor reaction system with global coupling was introduced in [1]. The authors showed that global coupling suppresses the breathing motion and enhances the propagation of the localized solution. The collision between two traveling waves for a sufficiently strong global coupling is discussed in [2]. If the width of layers is infinitesimally thin, the equation of motion for a pair of the interfaces is derived. We shall study the dynamics of interfaces in the free boundary problem with global coupling and with a strong global coupling.