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CHAPTER 6<br />

PAPER IV: “FROM FIRST LYAPUNOV COEFFICIENTS TO MAXIMAL<br />

6.1 Abstract<br />

CANARDS”<br />

Hopf bifurcations in <strong>fast</strong>-<strong>slow</strong> systems of ordinary differential equations can be<br />

associated <strong>with</strong> surprising rapid growth of periodic orbits. This process is re-<br />

ferred to as canard explosion. The key step in locating a canard explosion is<br />

to calculate the location of a special trajectory, called a maximal canard, in pa-<br />

rameter space. A first-order asymptotic expansion of this location was found by<br />

Krupa <strong>and</strong> Szmolyan [86, 85, 83] in the framework of a “canard point”-normal-<br />

form for systems <strong>with</strong> <strong>one</strong> <strong>fast</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>one</strong> <strong>slow</strong> variable. We show how to compute<br />

the coefficient in this expansion using the first Lyapunov coefficient at the Hopf<br />

bifurcation thereby avoiding use of this normal form. Our results connect the<br />

theory of canard explosions <strong>with</strong> existing numerical software, enabling easier<br />

calculations of where canard explosions occur.<br />

Remark: Copyright (c)[2010] Submitted to: International Journal of Bifurca-<br />

tion <strong>and</strong> Chaos.<br />

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