Contiguous relations of hypergeometric series

  • Authors:
  • Raimundas Vidūnas

  • Affiliations:
  • Korteweg-de Vries Institute, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics - Proceedings of the sixth international symposium on orthogonal polynomials, special functions and their applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The 15 Gauss contiguous relations for 2F1 hypergeometric series imply that any three 2F1 series whose corresponding parameters differ by integers are linearly related (over the field of rational functions in the parameters). We prove several properties of coefficients of these general contiguous relations, and use the results to propose effective ways to compute contiguous relations. We also discuss contiguous relations of generalized and basic hypergeometric functions, and several applications of them.