The existence of multi-pulse solutions near orbit-flip bifurcations of a primary single-humped pulse is shown in reversible,
conservative, singularly perturbed vector fields. Similar to the non-singular case, the sign of a geometric condition that
involves the first integral decides whether multi-pulses exist or not. The proof utilizes a combination of geometric singular
perturbation theory and Lyapunov–Schmidt reduction through Lin’s method. The motivation for considering orbit flips in singularly
perturbed systems comes from the regularized short-pulse equation and the Ostrovsky equation, which both fit into this framework
and are shown here to support multi-pulses.
Keywords Short pulse - Multi-pulses - Orbit flip - Lin’s method - Singular perturbation