%0 Journal Article %T On a constrained reaction-diffusion system related to multiphase problems %A J. F. Rodrigues %A L. Santos %J Mathematics %D 2007 %I arXiv %X We solve and characterize the Lagrange multipliers of a reaction-diffusion system in the Gibbs simplex of R^{N+1} by considering strong solutions of a system of parabolic variational inequalities in R^N. Exploring properties of the two obstacles evolution problem, we obtain and approximate a N-system involving the characteristic functions of the saturated and/or degenerated phases in the nonlinear reaction terms. We also show continuous dependence results and we establish sufficient conditions of non-degeneracy for the stability of those phase subregions. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.2814v1