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1.8<br />

1.6<br />

1.4<br />

1.2<br />

1<br />

0.8<br />

0.6<br />

0.4<br />

SNLC<br />

Hom<br />

Hopf<br />

p<br />

ε=0.01<br />

0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25<br />

Figure 3.1: Bifurcation diagram of (3.6). Hopf bifurcations are shown in<br />

green, saddle-node of limit cycles (SNLC) are shown in blue<br />

<strong>and</strong> GH indicates a generalized Hopf (or Bautin) bifurcation.<br />

The arrows indicate the side on which periodic orbits are generated<br />

at the Hopf bifurcation. The red curve shows (possible)<br />

homoclinic orbits; in fact, homoclinic orbits only exist to<br />

the left of the <strong>two</strong> black dots (see Section 3.4.2). Only part of<br />

the parameter space is shown because of the symmetry (3.7).<br />

The homoclinic curve has been thickened to indicate that multipulse<br />

homoclinic orbits exist very close to single pulse <strong>one</strong>s<br />

(see [38]).<br />

can be computed <strong>with</strong> elementary methods that do not use continuation meth-<br />

ods based on collocation. The analysis of the <strong>slow</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>fast</strong> subsystems yields<br />

a “singular bifurcation diagram” to which the basic CU structure in Figure 3.1<br />

converges asǫ→ 0.<br />

Remark: We have also investigated the termination mechanism of the C-<br />

shaped homoclinic curve described in [18]. Champneys et al. observed that<br />

the homoclinic curve does not reach the U-shaped Hopf curve but turns around<br />

<strong>and</strong> folds back close to itself. We compute accurate approximations of the ho-<br />

66<br />

GH

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