1 Introduction and summary 1
2 PDE systems, pfaffian systems and vector field systems 7
3 Cartan¡¯s local existence theorem 35
4 Involutivity and the prolongation theorem 79
5 Drach¡¯s classification, second order PDEs in one dependent variable, and Monge characteristics 114
6 Integration of vector field systems ¦Í satisfying 126
7 Higher order contact transformations 164
8 Local Lie groups 175
9 Structural classification of 3\|dimensional Lie algebras over the complex numbers 221
10 Lie equations and Lie vector field systems 235
11 Second order PDEs in one dependent and two independent variables 270
12 Hyperbolic PDEs with Monge systems admitting two or three first integrals 296
13 Classification of hyperbolic Goursat equations 346
14 Cartan¡¯s theory of lie pseudogroups 368
15 The equivalence problem 421
16 Parabolic PDEs and associated PDE systems 442
17 The equivalence problem for general 3\|dimensional pfaffian systems in five variables 471
18 Involutive second order PDE systems in one dependent and three independent variables, solved by the method of Monge 505
