Singularity theory and differential equations. Proceedings of a symposium held at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, February 1--4, 1999 (Q2703532)

The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE Contents: Hiro-o Tokunaga, \({\mathcal S}_4\) coverings of \({\mathbf P}^2\) and the topology of the complements of sextic curves (1-17); Takashi Nishimura, Passing through degenerate points (18-33); Kazuhiko Aomoto and Kazumoto Iguchi, The 2-dimensional Wu equation and singularities of quasihypergeometric functions (Japanese) (34-46); Leslie Wilson, The tangent semicone and limits of tangent spaces to real surfaces (47-51); Guangfeng Jiang and Aron Simis, Hypersurfaces having higher order contact with singular spaces (52-57); Tetsutaro Shibata, Asymptotic behavior of solutions to singularly perturbed ODE of sine-Gordon type (58-67); Norimichi Hirano, Multiple existence of entire solutions for semilinear elliptic problems on \(\mathbb{R}^N\) (68-77); Shyuichi Izumiya, A survey on singularities of solutions for first order partial differential equations (78-96); Kinji Watanabe, Degrees of zero points of zero solutions for second-order parabolic partial differential equations (Japanese) (97-101); Shuichi Jimbo, Ginzburg-Landau equation and the zero set of solutions (102-106); Shigeaki Koike, Introduction to the viscosity solution theory of first order PDEs (107-116); Yoshikazu Giga and Moto-Hiko Sato, Semicontinuous solutions for Hamilton-Jacobi equations with general Hamiltonians (117-124); Mikio Tsuji, Contact structure and 2nd-order partial differential equations (Japanese) (125-137); Ilia A. Bogaevski, Singularities of viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations (138-143); Hitoshi Ishii, Hopf-Lax formulas for Hamilton-Jacobi equations with semicontinuous initial data (144-156); Alexander G. Belyaev, A note on invariant three-point curvature approximations (157-164); Satoshi Koike, A problem on blow-analytic sufficiency of jets (165-167); Problems (168).