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Reduction formulae for the Lauricella functions in several variables
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2013, Article number: 312 (2013)
Abstract
The main objective of this paper is to show how one can obtain several interesting reduction formulae for Lauricella functions from a multiple hypergeometric series identity established earlier by Jaimini et al. The results are derived with the help of generalized Kummer’s second summation formulas obtained earlier by Lavoi et al. Some special cases of our main result are explicitly demonstrated.
MSC:33C70, 33C065, 33C90, 33C05.
1 Introduction and results required
In the usual notation, let ℂ denote the set of complex numbers. For
the generalized hypergeometric function with p numerator parameters and q denominator parameters is defined by (see, for example, [[1], Chapter 4]; see also [[2], pp.71-72])
where
and is the Pochhammer symbol defined (for ), in terms of the familiar gamma function Γ, by
The generalized Lauricella series in several variables is defined and represented in the following manner (see, for example, [[3], p.37]; see also [4]):
where, for convenience,
the coefficients
are real and nonnegative, and abbreviates the array of A parameters ; abbreviates the array of parameters
with similar interpretations for , etc.
In the course of study of hypergeometric functions of two or more variables, Srivastava [5, 6], Buschman and Srivastava [7], Grosjean and Sharma [8] and Grosjean and Srivastava [9] established a large number of double and multiple series identities involving essentially arbitrary coefficients (see, for example, [10]). Later Jaimini et al. [11] presented three substantially more general multiple series identities involving similar coefficients, one of which is recalled here as in the following theorem (see [[11], Theorem 3]).
Theorem 1Letrepresent a single-valued, bounded and real or complex function of the nonnegative integer-valued parameterm. Then we have
provided that each of the series involved is absolutely convergent.
From Theorem 1, with
we arrive at the following multiple hypergeometric identity involving the generalized Lauricella function defined by (1.4) (see [[11], Equation (3.1)]):
For , (1.7) reduces at once to (see [[11], Equation (3.2)])
Finally, if we use Kummer’s second summation theorem (see, for example, [[12], p.11, Equation 2.4(2)]; see also [[13], Equation (1.4)])
in (1.8) when
Jaimini et al. [[11], Equation (3.6)] established the following interesting reduction formula for the generalized Lauricella function:
Here, in this paper, we aim mainly at showing how one can obtain several interesting reduction formulae for Lauricella functions from a multiple hypergeometric series identity (1.8). For this, we recall the following generalization of Kummer’s second summation theorem (1.9) obtained earlier by Lavoie et al. [14]:
where, and in what follows, denotes (as usual) the greatest integer less than or equal to x. The coefficients and are tabulated below.
It is remarked in passing that Equation (1.9) was incorrectly attributed to Gauss by Bailey [[12], p.11, Equation 2.4(2)] (see, for details, [[13], p.853]).
2 Main reduction formulae
The eleven reduction formulae in the form of a single result to be established are given in the following theorem.
Theorem 2The following reduction formula holds true:
whereand, here, the coefficientsandcan be obtained in replacingaandbin Table 1byand, respectively.
Proof The proof is quite straightforward. In fact, if we set and in Equation (1.8), we have the following form:
Now, we observe that the appearing on the right-hand side of (2.2) can be evaluated with the help of generalized Kummer’s second summation theorem (1.11) in replacing a and b by and , respectively. And, after a little simplification, we easily arrive at the right-hand side of our main formula (2.1). The completes the proof of Theorem 2. □
3 Special cases
It is easy to see that the special case of (2.1) when leads to Equation (1.10) due to Jaimini et al. [11]. Here we consider two interesting special cases of our main formula (2.1). Setting and in (2.1), we find Equations (3.1) and (3.2), respectively:
and
Clearly Equations (3.1) and (3.2) are closely related to Equation (1.10). The other special cases of (2.1) can also be obtained.
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This paper was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-0011005).
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Choi, J., Rathie, A.K. Reduction formulae for the Lauricella functions in several variables. J Inequal Appl 2013, 312 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1029-242X-2013-312
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