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pecially when the solutions of interest contain canards. Our investigations of<br />

the FitzHugh-Nagumo model agree <strong>with</strong> this observation: AUTO appears to<br />

have difficulty computing homoclinic or periodic orbits that contain a lengthy<br />

segment along the <strong>slow</strong> manifold S r,ǫ like the <strong>one</strong> shown in Figure 4.4. There<br />

has been little investigation of the limitations of boundary value methods in<br />

computing trajectories that contain canards, but <strong>one</strong> possible reason might be<br />

that trajectory segments which follow a <strong>slow</strong> manifold for different distances<br />

are almost impossible to distinguish numerically. This paper approaches this<br />

difficulty by introducing a <strong>two</strong> point boundary value solver that computes the<br />

<strong>slow</strong> manifolds themselves. The solver is based upon a different collocation<br />

scheme than the <strong>one</strong> used in AUTO. Though our method has worked better for<br />

us than a few attempts to solve these problems <strong>with</strong> AUTO, we have performed<br />

neither theoretical analysis or comparative numerical studies of stability <strong>and</strong><br />

convergence of different collocation methods in computing <strong>slow</strong> manifolds of<br />

saddle-type. Such studies are interesting topics for further research. Here, we<br />

only present evidence that the SMST algorithm is an effective, <strong>fast</strong> <strong>and</strong> accurate<br />

method for computing <strong>slow</strong> manifolds in the systems that we studied. Our<br />

solver works effectively <strong>with</strong> the examples presented in this paper, yielding<br />

modest sized systems of equations that are solved <strong>with</strong> a few iterations of New-<br />

ton’s method. Attracting <strong>and</strong> repelling manifolds of a <strong>slow</strong> manifold S <strong>with</strong><br />

the method are computed by numerical integration. In these numerical integra-<br />

tions, we start <strong>with</strong> initial points that lie in the directions of eigenvectors of the<br />

layer equations. Since these directions are almost tangent to the invariant man-<br />

ifolds of S that we seek <strong>and</strong> nearby trajectories converge to the manifolds, we<br />

think that the resulting surfaces are very good approximations to the manifolds.<br />

Asymptotic expansions for trajectories in the attracting <strong>and</strong> repelling manifolds<br />

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