BLOW-UP SURFACES FOR NONLINEAR-WAVE EQUATIONS .2.

In this second part, we prove that the equation square u = e(u) has so lutions blowing up near a point of any analytic, space-like hypersurfa ce in R(n), without any additional condition; if (phi(x,t) = 0) is the equation of the surface, u - ln(2/phi2) is not necessarily analytic, and generally contains logarithmic terms. We then construct singular s olutions of general semilinear equations which blow-up on a non-charac teristic surface, provided that the first term of an expansion of such solutions can be found. We finally list a few other simple nonlinear evolution equations to which our methods apply; in particular, formal solutions of soliton equations given by a number of authors can be sho wn to be convergent by this procedure.