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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0719.00022.] The author investigates light surfaces of differential equations. It turns out that singularities of generic systems of partial differential equations of arbitrary order (resp. generic variational systems) are diffeomorphic to the singularities of the cone of degenerate matrices (resp. symmetric matrices). Next, he studies the hyperbolicity set in the space of systems with constant coefficients. It turns out that the sequence of simplest (regular) singularities of this set coincides with the boundary singularities of scalar hyperbolic equations. He proves that the hyperbolicity set in the neighborhood of a nonstrictly hyperbolic system, satisfying certain regularity conditions, is algebraic. He also shows that the set of variational hyperbolic systems contains several connected components, some of which are noncontractible.