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3.3.3 Two Slow Variables, One Fast Variable<br />

From continuation of periodic orbits in the full system - to be described in Sec-<br />

tion 3.4.1 - we observe that near the U-shaped curve of Hopf bifurcations the<br />

x2-coordinate is a <strong>fast</strong>er variable than x1. In particular, the small periodic orbits<br />

generated in the Hopf bifurcation lie almost in the plane x2= 0. Hence to ana-<br />

lyze this region we set ¯x2=x2/ǫ to transform the FitzHugh-Nagumo equation<br />

(3.6) into a system <strong>with</strong> 2 <strong>slow</strong> <strong>and</strong> 1 <strong>fast</strong> variable:<br />

˙x1 = ¯x2<br />

ǫ 2 ˙¯x2 = 1<br />

5 (sǫ ¯x2−x1(x1− 1)( 1<br />

10 − x1)+y− p) (3.14)<br />

˙y = 1<br />

s (x1− y)<br />

Note that (3.14) corresponds to the FitzHugh-Nagumo equation in the form (cf.<br />

(3.4)):<br />

⎧<br />

⎪⎨<br />

⎪⎩<br />

uτ= 5ǫ 2 uxx+ f (u)−w+ p<br />

wτ=ǫ(u−w)<br />

(3.15)<br />

Therefore the transformation ¯x2=x2/ǫ can be viewed as a rescaling of the dif-<br />

fusion strength byǫ 2 . We introduce a new independent small parameter ¯δ=ǫ 2<br />

<strong>and</strong> then let ¯δ=ǫ 2 → 0. This assumes that O(ǫ) terms do not vanish in this limit,<br />

yielding the diffusion free system. Then the <strong>slow</strong> manifold S 0 of (3.14) is:<br />

<br />

S 0= (x1, ¯x2, y)∈R 3 : ¯x2= 1<br />

sǫ ( f (x1)−y+<br />

<br />

p)<br />

(3.16)<br />

Proposition 3.3.2. Following <strong>time</strong> rescaling by s, the <strong>slow</strong> flow of system (3.14) on S 0<br />

in the <strong>variables</strong> (x1, y) is given by<br />

ǫ ˙x1 = f (x1)−y+ p<br />

˙y = x1− y (3.17)<br />

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