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ons that was used by David Terman in his analysis of the transition be-<br />

tween bursts <strong>with</strong> different numbers of spikes [105, 90],<br />

2. A three-dimensional system whose homoclinic orbits yield traveling-wave<br />

profiles for the FitzHugh-Nagumo model [18],<br />

3. A four-dimensional model of <strong>two</strong> coupled neurons studied by Gucken-<br />

heimer, Hoffman <strong>and</strong> Weckesser [53].<br />

Empirical tests of the precision of the algorithm are given for the Morris-Lecar<br />

model.<br />

4.3 The SMST Algorithm<br />

This section describes a collocation method called the SMST algorithm for com-<br />

puting <strong>slow</strong> manifolds of saddle-type in <strong>slow</strong>-<strong>fast</strong> systems. Collocation meth-<br />

ods [21, 3, 30, 31] are a well established method for solving boundary value<br />

problems. The algorithm described in this paper is not a new collocation<br />

method [59, 48]: the subtlety lies in the formulation of a boundary value prob-<br />

lem that yields discrete systems of equations <strong>with</strong> well-conditi<strong>one</strong>d Jacobians.<br />

The crucial part of the geometry is to specify boundary conditions for trajec-<br />

tory segments on a <strong>slow</strong> manifold that yield well-conditi<strong>one</strong>d discretizations.<br />

Two issues that must be dealt <strong>with</strong> in formulating the algorithm are that (1) the<br />

boundary conditions must determine a unique <strong>slow</strong> manifold in circumstances<br />

where there is an entire “tube” of such manifolds, <strong>and</strong> (2) any pair of trajectories<br />

that lie close to the <strong>slow</strong> manifold are “exp<strong>one</strong>ntially close” along most of their<br />

length.<br />

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