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The Hopf bifurcation is supercritical for K1> 0 <strong>and</strong> subcritical for K1< 0. The coeffi-<br />

cients H1 <strong>and</strong> K1 can be calculated explicitly from normal form transformations [86] or<br />

by considering the first Lyapunov coefficient of the Hopf bifurcation [87].<br />

Remark: The expansions in (1.13)-(1.14) are in terms of the asymptotic se-<br />

quence{ǫ j/2 } ∞<br />

j=0 .<br />

1.2 Overview<br />

1.2.1 Structure<br />

Chapters 1-2 are introductory <strong>and</strong> provide the necessary background from the<br />

theory of <strong>fast</strong>-<strong>slow</strong> systems <strong>with</strong> a particular focus on the Exchange Lemma.<br />

The research contribution of this thesis consists of Chapters 3-6. Each of these<br />

chapters consists of a journal publication. The chronological ordering of these<br />

chapters has been maintained i.e. Chapter 3 was completed <strong>and</strong> submitted first<br />

<strong>and</strong> Chapter 6 was finished <strong>and</strong> submitted last. We hope that this also shows<br />

how the research process evolved for this PhD thesis. The papers in Chapters<br />

3-6 have been kept in their original form <strong>with</strong> a few omissions in Chapter 4. For<br />

each paper we have added a section titled “Additions”. These sections consist of<br />

ideas that did not appear in the journal publications such as additional compu-<br />

tations or new analytical calculations. We have included these details to present<br />

a more complete picture of each part of the PhD project. This structure of the<br />

thesis shows clearly how the results were obtained. Also Chapters 3-6 can be<br />

read independently if only a particular result should be of interest to the reader.<br />

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