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forǫ> 0. Therefore they have no immediate meaning in the full system. Hence<br />

<strong>one</strong> has to be very careful not to confuse folded singularities <strong>with</strong> equilibrium<br />

points of the full system.<br />

The canard explosion in Van der Pol’s equation occurs O(e −K/ǫ )-close in pa-<br />

rameter space to the point where the manifolds S a,+<br />

ǫ <strong>and</strong> S r ǫ intersect in a max-<br />

imal canard. A folded singularity occurs forλ=1 at p+ = (1,−2) when the<br />

unique equilibrium coincides <strong>with</strong> the fold point; see Figure 1.1(b). Note that<br />

λ=1=λH is also the singular Hopf bifurcation point of the system but that this<br />

situation is not generic. In fact, in a generic situation the singular Hopf bifur-<br />

cation point is displaced by O(ǫ) in parameter space from the folded singularity<br />

which can be seen by modifying the <strong>slow</strong> equation to<br />

y ′ =ǫ(λ− x+ay)<br />

for a0. The ideas of folded singularities <strong>and</strong> singular Hopf bifurcation can be<br />

extended to general <strong>fast</strong>-<strong>slow</strong> systems <strong>and</strong> we now summarize some of the key<br />

comp<strong>one</strong>nts of each concept starting <strong>with</strong> singular Hopf bifurcation:<br />

• A singular Hopf bifurcation occurs atλ=λH(ǫ) which is O(ǫ)-close in pa-<br />

rameter space to a folded singularity atλ=λ∗.<br />

• The periodic orbits generated in the bifurcation undergo a canard explo-<br />

sion. A maximal canard orbit exists forλ=λc(ǫ) which is O(ǫ)-close in<br />

parameter space to the folded singularity.<br />

• In the singular limit we haveλH(0)=λ∗=λc(0).<br />

• The system has a pair of singular eigenvalues [13] for the linearized sys-<br />

tem on the 2-dimensional center manifold [88, 54] at the Hopf bifurcation<br />

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