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โบThe main functions treated in this chapter are the basic hypergeometric (or
-hypergeometric) function
, the bilateral basic hypergeometric (or bilateral
-hypergeometric) function
, and the
-
analogs of the Appell functions
,
,
, and
.
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โบFine (1988) uses
for a particular specialization of a
function.
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โบIf we denote
and
, then
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31.7.1
โบOther reductions of
to a
, with at least one free parameter, exist iff the pair
takes one of a finite number of values, where
.
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31.7.2
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31.7.3
โบ
31.7.4
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10.16.9
โบFor
see (
16.2.1).
โบWith
as in §
15.2(i), and with
and
fixed,
โบ
10.16.10
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โบFor subsequent use we define two formal infinite series,
and
, as follows:
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โบIt may be observed that
represents the sum of the residues of the poles of the integrand in (
16.5.1) at
,
, provided that these poles are all simple, that is, no two of the
differ by an integer.
(If this condition is violated, then the definition of
has to be modified so that the residues are those associated with the multiple poles.
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โบThe formal series (
16.11.2) for
converges if
, and
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โบAsymptotic expansions for the polynomials
as
through integer values are given in
Fields and Luke (1963b, a) and
Fields (1965).
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โบ
§33.2(ii) Regular Solution
โบThe function
is recessive (§
2.7(iii)) at
, and is defined by
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§33.2(iii) Irregular Solutions
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โบ
and
are complex conjugates, and their real and imaginary parts are given by
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โบAs in the case of
, the solutions
and
are analytic functions of
when
.
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