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are called fold points. We can use the flow of (6.2) to extend the associated <strong>slow</strong><br />

manifolds S a,ǫ <strong>and</strong> S r,ǫ but the extensions might not be normally hyperbolic. The<br />

key definition used in this paper is that a trajectoryγin the intersection of S a,ǫ<br />

<strong>and</strong> S r,ǫ is called a maximal canard; note that this definition requires the exten-<br />

sions of the <strong>slow</strong> manifolds under the flow. Observe thatγ⊂S r,ǫ despite the fact<br />

that S r,ǫ is repelling in the <strong>fast</strong> directions.<br />

We are interested in the case when a <strong>fast</strong>-<strong>slow</strong> system undergoes a Hopf bi-<br />

furcation <strong>and</strong> a maximal canard is formed close to this bifurcation. The periodic<br />

orbits resulting from the Hopf bifurcation grow rapidly in aλ-interval of width<br />

O(e −K/ǫ ) for some k>0. The rapid orbit growth is usually referred to as canard<br />

explosion <strong>and</strong> the bifurcation scenario is called singular Hopf bifurcation.<br />

The paper is organized as follows. In Section 6.3 we describe results on sin-<br />

gular Hopf bifurcation <strong>and</strong> canard explosion obtained by Krupa <strong>and</strong> Szmolyan<br />

[86]. In Section 6.4 we clarify the different definitions of the first Lyapunov co-<br />

efficient of a Hopf bifurcation. In Section 6.5 we present the main results on<br />

the relation between the location of the maximal canard <strong>and</strong> the first Lyapunov<br />

coefficient. We describe which terms will contribute to the first order approxi-<br />

mation using a re<strong>scale</strong>d Hopf bifurcation normal form. Then we show explicitly<br />

how to compute a first order approximation to the location of the maximal ca-<br />

nard avoiding additional center manifold reduction <strong>and</strong> normal form transfor-<br />

mations. In Section 6.6 we locate the maximal canards in <strong>two</strong> examples: a <strong>two</strong>-<br />

dimensional version of van der Pol’s equation <strong>and</strong> a three-dimensional version<br />

of the FitzHugh-Nagumo equation.<br />

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