Canard explosion in delay differential equations

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Abstract: We analyze canard explosions in delayed differential equations with a one-dimensional slow manifold. This study is applied to explore the dynamics of the van der Pol slow-fast system with delayed self-coupling. In the absence of delays, this system provides a canonical example of a canard explosion. We show that as the delay is increased a family of `classical' canard explosions ends as a Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation occurs at the folds points of the S-shaped critical manifold.


The authors state a generalization of the Fenichel theorem to the context of delay equations with a one-dimensional slow manifold. This extended theory is consequently applied to the delayed self-coupled version of van der Pol oscillator \[ \begin{aligned} x'_t=&x_t-\frac{x_t^3}{3}+y_t+ J(x_t-x_{t-\tau}) \\ y'_t=&\varepsilon(a-x_t), \end{aligned} \] and the existence of canard explosions is proved. In this model, motivated by the analysis of firings of neurons, \(x\) represents the voltage of a cell, \(y\) is a slow adaptation variable, \(J\) represents the average coupling strength between neurons and \(\tau\) the average delay of communication between the cells. The authors show that for a wide range of delays \(\tau\), the canard explosion is similar to the case of the systems with one slow and one fast variables, but that by increasing delays a destabilization the family of small canard cycles may occur.





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