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§19.19 Taylor and Related Series

For N=0,1,2,\dots define the homogeneous hypergeometric polynomial

where the summation extends over all nonnegative integers m_{1},\dots,m_{n} whose sum is N. The following two multivariate hypergeometric series apply to each of the integrals (19.16.14)–(19.16.18) and (19.16.20)–(19.16.23):

If n=2, then (19.19.3) is a Gauss hypergeometric series (see (19.25.43) and (15.2.1)).

Define the elementary symmetric function E_{s}(\mathbf{z}) by

19.19.4\prod_{{j=1}}^{n}(1+tz_{j})=\sum_{{s=0}}^{n}t^{s}E_{s}(\mathbf{z}),

and define the n-tuple \mathbf{\tfrac{1}{2}}=(\tfrac{1}{2},\dots,\tfrac{1}{2}). Then

where M=\sum_{{j=1}}^{n}m_{j} and the summation extends over all nonnegative integers m_{1},\dots,m_{n} such that \sum_{{j=1}}^{n}jm_{j}=N.

This form of T_{N} can be applied to (19.16.14)–(19.16.18) and (19.16.20)–(19.16.23) if we use

as well as (19.16.5) and (19.16.6). The number of terms in T_{N} can be greatly reduced by using variables \mathbf{Z}=\boldsymbol{{1}}-(\mathbf{z}/A) with A chosen to make E_{1}(\mathbf{Z})=0. Then T_{N} has at most one term if N\leq 5 in the series for \mathop{R_{F}\/}\nolimits. For \mathop{R_{J}\/}\nolimits and \mathop{R_{D}\/}\nolimits, T_{N} has at most one term if N\leq 3, and two terms if N=4 or 5.

where

Special cases are given in (19.36.1) and (19.36.2).