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2.3 The Exchange Lemma I<br />

The Exchange Lemma was initially proved by J<strong>one</strong>s <strong>and</strong> Kopell [68]. We shall<br />

mainly follow their original paper <strong>and</strong> an expository presentation in [74]. Recall<br />

from the problem of finding homoclinic orbits in the FitzHugh-Nagumo <strong>with</strong><br />

more than <strong>one</strong> jump discussed in the previous section that we have to track an<br />

invariant manifold in phase phase. For the general situation we start <strong>with</strong> a<br />

<strong>fast</strong>-<strong>slow</strong> system<br />

ǫ ˙x = f (x, y,ǫ)<br />

˙y = g(x, y,ǫ) (2.17)<br />

<strong>with</strong> x∈R m <strong>and</strong> y∈R n . We include in (2.17) possible parameters in the sys-<br />

tem in the vector y as <strong>slow</strong> <strong>variables</strong>. In the FitzHugh-Nagumo equation that<br />

would mean including the equation for the wave speed ˙s=0 <strong>and</strong> re-labeling s<br />

to a suitable indexed y-coordinate. Let S 0 denote some compact normally hy-<br />

perbolic submanifold of the critical manifold <strong>and</strong> let Sǫ be the corresponding<br />

<strong>slow</strong> manifold. Note that we shall assume that S 0 is in fact uniformly normally<br />

hyperbolic meaning that Dx f (p) has eigenvalues uniformly bounded away from<br />

zero for each p∈S 0.<br />

Recall from Theorem 1.1.3 that we can transform a <strong>fast</strong>-<strong>slow</strong> system near a<br />

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