How to define singular solutions

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Because implicit first order differential equations may have two- parameter families of solutions, the notions of ``general solution and ``singular solution as sometimes described in elementary texts are not appropriate. The authors use the ideas of contact geometry to give rigorous definitions, improving on an earlier approach by \textit{M. T. Fukuda} [Yokohama Math. J. 25, 41-58 (1977; Zbl 0372.34026)]. The approach is elementary and the main results can be extended to partial differential equations.











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