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are complicated [107]: we expect that theoretical improvements in this part of<br />

the computations would require great effort for marginal gains in accuracy.<br />

The SMST algorithm can be incorporated into <strong>multiple</strong> shooting methods<br />

for computing periodic <strong>and</strong> homoclinic orbits along the lines of those intro-<br />

duced in Guckenheimer <strong>and</strong> Lamar [58]. The strategy used in these methods<br />

is to define surfaces that separate the desired trajectory into segments that can<br />

be stably computed by forward or backward numerical integration, or here <strong>with</strong><br />

the SMST algorithm. Computations of the homoclinic orbits in the FitzHugh-<br />

Nagumo model are very complex. The decomposition of these homoclinic or-<br />

bits into segments that can be computed <strong>with</strong> the SMST algorithm <strong>and</strong> <strong>with</strong><br />

numerical integration changes as <strong>one</strong> moves along the homoclinic curve in pa-<br />

rameter space. N<strong>one</strong>theless, we can compute good approximations to the ho-<br />

moclinic orbits along the entire curve <strong>with</strong> our methods.<br />

Theoretical analysis of the SMST algorithm <strong>and</strong> exploration of variants have<br />

hardly begun. As <strong>one</strong> possible variation, automatic differentiation methods that<br />

compute Taylor polynomials of the vector field at mesh points could be used<br />

to obtain discretized equations based upon Hermite interpolation <strong>with</strong> higher<br />

degree splines, similar to the methods used by Guckenheimer <strong>and</strong> Meloon to<br />

compute periodic orbits [59].<br />

4.6 Additions<br />

In addition to the boundary value solver described in Section 4.3 other ap-<br />

proaches were tested. Several observations were made:<br />

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