Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2016
Let P(x, D) be a linear partial differential operator with real analytic coefficients and let C ⊂ Rn be a germ of closed subset, say at the origin. We say that C is (the locus of) an irremovable singularity of a real analytic solution u of P(x, D)u = 0 if u is defined outside C on a neighborhood Ω of 0 but cannot be extended to the whole neighborhood Ω even as a hyperfunction solution of P(x, D)u = 0. This usage of the word “singularity” is the same as the one for the analytic functions in complex analysis, and is different of the usual usage of “singularities of solutions” in the theory of partial differential equations.