Formal and convergent solutions of singular partial differential equations

We consider the problem of the existence of convergent series solutions for partial differential operators of the form. We give first conditions for P such that the linear equation Pu=f has an analytic solution, then we solve nonlinear equations of the form Pu=F(x,u). For applications we treat also cases with parameters and give a proof of a theorem of S. Kaplan [5]. In the last section we consider a case where small denominators occur.