Showing that a hypergeometric expression is 0?
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- Subject: [mg73277] Showing that a hypergeometric expression is 0?
- From: "David W.Cantrell" <DWCantrell at sigmaxi.net>
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 02:26:15 -0500 (EST)
How can I use Mathematica to show that n Hypergeometric2F1Regularized[k, 1 - n, 1 + k - n, -1] + Hypergeometric2F1Regularized[k, -n, k - n, -1] + k n Hypergeometric2F1Regularized[1 + k, 1 - n, 2 + k - n, -1] - k Hypergeometric2F1Regularized[1 + k, -n, 1 + k - n, -1] is identically 0? I presume that I could do that by hand, perhaps without much trouble. But I also have far, far messier expressions involving hypergeometric functions which I need to show to be identically 0, and I really don't want to have to do so by hand! David W. Cantrell