Re: hypergeometric function
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- Subject: [mg12895] Re: hypergeometric function
- From: "Stephen P Luttrell" <luttrell at signal.dra.hmg.gb>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 03:44:19 -0400
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Klamser wrote in message <6m7fol$gq2 at smc.vnet.net>...
>Hello,
>
>in the Online-Help of Mathematica or in the Mathematica Book under
>Page #750 I can find the hypergeometric function Hypergeometric2F1[a,
>b, c, z]. I do not understand the definition:
>
>It say's:
>
>\!\(\*FormBox[
> RowBox[{\(\[Null]\_2\), \(F\_1\), \((a, b; c; z)\), "=",
> UnderoverscriptBox["\[Sum]", \(k = 0\),
>"\[Infinity]",
>LimitsPositioning->True], \(\(\((a)\)\_k\) \((b)\)\_k\), "/",
> \(\((c)\)\_k\), " ", \(z\^k\), "/", \(k!\), "
>"}], TraditionalForm]\)
>
>The Sum Function uses the contsnts a, b and c wit the Index k. What
>does that mean??
The notation (a)k, where the k is a subscript, means
Gamma(a+k)/Gamma(a), where Gamma(x) is the standard gamma function. See
page xliii of "Table of Integrals, Series, and Products" by Gradshteyn
and Ryzhik
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