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<strong>with</strong> x∈R m the vector of <strong>fast</strong> <strong>variables</strong>, y∈R n the vector of <strong>slow</strong> <strong>variables</strong> <strong>and</strong>ǫ<br />

a small parameter that represents the ratio of <strong>time</strong> <strong>scale</strong>s. The pair (x, y) will be<br />

denoted by z <strong>and</strong> the vector field will be written ˙z=F(z). Invariant <strong>slow</strong> man-<br />

ifolds on which the motion of the system has speed that is O(1) are a common<br />

feature of <strong>slow</strong>-<strong>fast</strong> systems. Nevertheless, simulation of these systems <strong>with</strong> ex-<br />

plicit numerical integration algorithms is limited to <strong>time</strong> steps that are O(ǫ) due<br />

to numerical instabilities. Indeed, trajectories often spend most of their <strong>time</strong> fol-<br />

lowing attracting <strong>slow</strong> manifolds. Implicit “stiff” integration methods [61] com-<br />

pute trajectories along the attracting <strong>slow</strong> manifolds, taking <strong>time</strong> steps that are<br />

O(1) while avoiding the numerical instabilities of explicit methods. However,<br />

no initial value solver will compute forward trajectories that evolve on non-<br />

attracting <strong>slow</strong> manifolds because the geometric instability of these trajectories<br />

is such that nearby initial conditions diverge from <strong>one</strong> another at exp<strong>one</strong>ntial<br />

rates commensurate <strong>with</strong> the <strong>fast</strong> <strong>time</strong> <strong>scale</strong>. Even an exact initial value solver<br />

in the presence of round-off errors of magnitudeδwill amplify this round-off<br />

error to unit magnitude in a <strong>time</strong> that is O(−ǫ log(δ)). Trajectories on <strong>slow</strong> man-<br />

ifolds that are repelling in all normal directions can be computed by reversing<br />

<strong>time</strong>, but different strategies are needed to compute trajectories that lie on <strong>slow</strong><br />

manifolds of saddle type. This paper presents an algorithm that directly com-<br />

putes accurate trajectories of <strong>slow</strong> manifolds of saddle-type. The most similar<br />

work on computing these manifolds have been AUTO computations that con-<br />

tinue families of trajectories to obtain portions of a saddle-type <strong>slow</strong> manifold.<br />

Examples include a <strong>slow</strong> manifold that lies in the unstable manifold of a three<br />

dimensional model of a cardiac pacemaker [79] <strong>and</strong> segments of homoclinic or-<br />

bits in the model of FitzHugh-Nagumo traveling-waves [18] studied further in<br />

Section 3.3 of this paper.<br />

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