The components of complex analytic functions define solutions for the Laplace's equation, and in a simply connected domain, each solution of this equation is the first component of a complex analytic function. In this paper, we generalize this result; for each PDE of the form
Auxx+Buxy+Cuyy=0, and for each affine planar vector field Ď, we give an algebra
đ¸ with unit eâ=âe1, with respect to which the components of all functions of the form
scriptL1.5ptâ1.5ptĎ are all the solutions for this PDE, where
scriptL is differentiable in the sense of Lorch with respect to
đ¸. Solutions are also constructed for the following equations:
Auxx+Buxy+Cuyy+Dux+Euy+Fu=0,
3rdâorder PDEs, and
4thâorder PDEs; among these are the biâharmonic, the biâwave, and the biâtelegraph equations.