A partial differential equation (PDE) has a solution here the function is defined by multiple variables. The equation may involve all kinds of combinations of which variables the function is differentiated with respect to.
In general, a partial differential equation for a function \( g(x_1,\dots,x_N) \) with \( N \) variables may be expressed as
$$ \begin{equation} \tag{17} f\left(x_1, \, \dots \, , x_N, \frac{\partial g(x_1,\dots,x_N) }{\partial x_1}, \dots , \frac{\partial g(x_1,\dots,x_N) }{\partial x_N}, \frac{\partial g(x_1,\dots,x_N) }{\partial x_1\partial x_2}, \, \dots \, , \frac{\partial^n g(x_1,\dots,x_N) }{\partial x_N^n} \right) = 0 \end{equation} $$where \( f \) is an expression involving all kinds of possible mixed derivatives of \( g(x_1,\dots,x_N) \) up to an order \( n \). In order for the solution to be unique, some additional conditions must also be given.