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•  define a coordinate system on P with origin at the limit cycle

•  given any point        on the Poincare section  P,

•  integrate forward in time until the trajectory returns to  P  at some point  

•  this process defines a map from P into P:              
---one in which time evolution of your system corresponds to iteration of the map.