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f ast<br />

whereφ t is the flow of the <strong>fast</strong> subsystem given by<br />

x ′ = f (x, y, 0)<br />

y ′ = 0<br />

<strong>and</strong> the y-coordinates to be used for a particular flow in (2.3) is determined by<br />

the y-coordinates of p. Instead of requiring a transversal intersection of mani-<br />

folds defined entirely by the <strong>slow</strong> flow we require a transversal intersection of<br />

N 1 <strong>and</strong> N 2 . The situation is shown in Figure 2.2.<br />

W u (P 1 )<br />

C 1<br />

P 1<br />

N 1<br />

N 2<br />

P 2<br />

C 2<br />

W s (P 2 )<br />

Figure 2.2: Transversal intersection of N 1 <strong>and</strong> N 2 yields a heteroclinic connection<br />

between P 1 <strong>and</strong> P 2 consisting of <strong>two</strong> <strong>slow</strong> segments<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>one</strong> <strong>fast</strong> segment.<br />

The heteroclinic orbit consists of a trajectory segment of the <strong>slow</strong> flow on C 1<br />

starting at P 1 . This segment connects to a trajectory of a <strong>fast</strong> subsystem which<br />

lies in the transversal intersection of N 1 <strong>and</strong> N 2 . Then the last segment lies on C 2<br />

connecting to P 2 . The orbit we obtain in this way is also called a singular orbit<br />

as it consists of trajectory segments obtained in the singular limitǫ= 0.<br />

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