First integral of a square-root reaction layer ($(Y^{\prime }{)}^2=\frac{2}{3}(\sqrt{Y}-k{)}^2(2\sqrt{Y}+k)$)

After $y={\epsilon }^{2}Y$ and $x=\epsilon \xi$ or a translated version, the layer equation is $Y^{\prime \prime }-\sqrt{Y}+k=0$. Multiplying by $Y^{\prime }$ and matching $Y=k^2$, $Y^{\prime }=0$ fixes the energy constant to $k^3/3$ and gives the displayed factorization. The increasing branch below $k^2$ approaches it at positive infinity; the increasing branch above it leaves it at negative infinity and grows like ${\xi }^4/144$. This supplies both interfaces of the square-root reaction problem with nested boundary layers.