Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

We study the normally elliptic singular perturbation problems including both finite and infinite dimensional cases, which could also be nonautonomous. In particular, we establish the existence and smoothness of O(1) local invariant manifolds and provide various estimates which are independent of small singular parameters. We also use our results on local invariant manifolds to study the persistence of homoclinic solutions under weakly dissipative and conservative perturbations.