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explicitly.<br />

Note that currently no st<strong>and</strong>ard bifurcation software such as AUTO [34] or<br />

MatCont [46] computes the constants ai <strong>and</strong> A automatically. Nevertheless bi-<br />

furcation software can detect Hopf bifurcations so that given a fixedǫ we can<br />

approximateλH numerically. Hence the numerical problem that remains is to<br />

compute A since<br />

λH−λc= A<br />

8 ǫ+ O(ǫ3/2 )<br />

To simplify the notation we define K=A/8. If we know K we can easily ap-<br />

proximate the location of the maximal canard byλc=λH− Kǫ+ O(ǫ 3/2 ). The<br />

maximal canard organizes the canard explosion [86] <strong>and</strong> indicates where the<br />

rapid amplitude growth of the small orbits generated in the Hopf bifurcation<br />

occurs. Our goal is to avoid any additional normal form transformations <strong>and</strong><br />

center manifold reductions to compute K. The key point to achieve this is to<br />

observe that K is just a re<strong>scale</strong>d version of “the” first Lyapunov coefficient of<br />

the Hopf bifurcation atλH.<br />

6.4 The First Lyapunov Coefficient<br />

We review <strong>and</strong> clarify the interpretation, computation <strong>and</strong> conventions asso-<br />

ciated <strong>with</strong> the first Lyapunov coefficient of a Hopf bifurcation. Consider a<br />

general N-dimensional ODE at a non-degenerate Hopf bifurcation point. We<br />

assume that the equilibrium has been translated to the origin so that<br />

z ′ = Mz+ F(z), for z∈R N<br />

152<br />

(6.8)

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