The dud canard: existence of strong canard cycles in R^3

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Abstract: In this paper, we provide a rigorous description of the birth of canard limit cycles in slow-fast systems in mathbbR3 through the folded saddle-node of type II and the singular Hopf bifurcation. In particular, we prove -- in the analytic case only -- that for all 0<epsilonll1 there is a family of periodic orbits, born in the (singular) Hopf bifurcation and extending to mathcalO(1) cycles that follow the strong canard of the folded saddle-node. Our results can be seen as an extension of the canard explosion in mathbbR2, but in contrast to the planar case, the family of periodic orbits in mathbbR3 is not explosive. For this reason, we have chosen to call the phenomena in mathbbR3, the "dud canard". The main difficulty of the proof lies in connecting the Hopf cycles with the canard cycles, since these are described in different scalings. As in mathbbR2 we use blowup to overcome this, but we also have to compensate for the lack of uniformity near the Hopf, due to its singular nature; it is a zero-Hopf in the limit epsilon=0. In the present paper, we do so by imposing analyticity of the vector-field. This allows us to prove existence of an invariant slow manifold, that is not normally hyperbolic.


The article provides a rigorous description of the birth of canard limit cycles in slow-fast systems in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) through the folded saddle-node of type II and the singular Hopf bifurcation. It proves rigorously that for sufficiently small parameter, there is a family of periodic orbits, born in the (singular) Hopf bifurcation and extending to O(1) cycles that follow the strong canard of the folded saddle-node. The results in this paper connects the Hopf cycles to the canard cycles in the 3-dimensional case, which is a zero-Hopf bifurcation in the singular limit. More importantly, it is pointed out in this paper that the birth of a canard cycle in the 3-dimensional case through the folded saddle-node of type II is very different from the 2-dimensional case. In the 3-dimensional case, the birth of canard is no explosive, and hence is called the dud canard.



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