Extensions of the Kummer evaluation of a finite hypergeometric series

  • Authors:
  • B. M. Brown;M. S. P. Eastham

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, University of Cardiff, Cardiff, UK;School of Computer Science, University of Cardiff, Cardiff, UK

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics - Special issue on 60th birthday of Prof. Brian Davies
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Kummer's evaluation of a finite hypergeometric series F(a, b; c; - 1) (c=b-a+ 1,b=-2m) is extended in two directions to answer questions related to the positivity of Jost functions arising from one-dimensional Schrödinger equations with exponentially decaying potentials.