Singularités de solutions d'équations aux dérivées partielles. (Singuarities of solutions of partial differential equations) (Q760844)

We develop the general mathematical setting necessary to study the singularities of local solutions of quasi-linear first order systems of partial differential equations with a free initial condition. In the good cases, it is possible to describe these singularities as a function of the free initial conditions satisfied by the solutions. Using the transversality theorem, it is then possible to describe the singularities of generic solutions, and of generic families of solutions under deformation of the initial conditions. We apply this study by giving classifications for an important class of hyperbolic quasi-linear first order systems in the plane, the reducible systems, and of an almost general class of hyperbolic quasi-linear second order equations in the plane.