Abstract
It is well-known that the Kummer quadratic transformation formula is valid provided that its parameters fulfill some specific conditions (see Gradshteyn, Ryzhik, Tables of Integrals, Series and Products, 9.130, 9.134.1). Very recently, one of us established a new identity when one of these conditions is not fulfilled. In this paper, we aim to discuss another isolated case which completely different from the first. Moreover, in the end, we mention two interesting consequences of these two new results.
Keywords:
hypergeometric functions; Kummer’s Quadratic Transformation; hypergeometric series with finitely many terms; hypergeometric series with infinitely many terms; differential equation MSC:
33C05; 33D15
1. Introduction
Gauss [1] defined his famous infinite series as follows
This infinite series (1) is usually denoted by the notation or simply F and is commonly known as the Gauss’s function or the hypergeometric series. Gauss’s function or the hypergeometric series is a solution of a second order differential equation.
The convergence conditions of are as follows,
- a hypergeometric series terminates if a or b is equal to a negative integer or zero. For , the hypergeometric series is indeterminate if neither a nor b is equal to (where and m is a natural number),
- if we exclude these values of the parameters , a hypergeometric series converges in the unit circle . then has a branch point at . Then we have the following conditions for convergence on the unit circle:
- , the series converges throughout the entire unit circle, except at the point ,
- , the series converges (absolutely) throughout the entire unit circle,
- , the series diverges on the entire unit circle.
It is well-known that the Kummer quadratic transformation formula
is valid provided that are not natural numbers and is not an integer (see Gradshteyn, Ryzhik, Tables of Integrals, Series and Products, 9.130, 9.134.1). Very recently, one of us established a new identity for an isolated case where is an integer by letting to be a negative integer and to be an even positive integer which we extended here into any even integer not necessarily positive and where we gave explicitly the expressions such that [2]
In this paper, we aim to discuss another isolated case with to be a negative integer and to be an odd integer where we gave explicitly the expressions such that
The results for and for are completely different. The expressions for and are given in the paper. Moreover, in the end, we mention two interesting consequences of our main result involving a symmetric role for with an odd and with an even .
In this paper, we deal with Gauss’s function and exactly with its connection with the following interesting and useful Kummer’s quadratic transformation [2] for the hypergeometric function (2). This quadratic transformation is valid for are not natural numbers and is NOT an integer. In this paper, we consider the case when is an integer.
This transformation formula is recorded in several standard texts on special functions and handbooks of mathematics, for example, in the standard text of I.S. Gradshteyn and I.M. Ryzhik [3] ( and ) and G. Andrews and al. [4] ( page 127 with a slight modification), in the handbook by Abramowitz-Stegun [5] and in DLMF: NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, https://dlmf.nist.gov/ [6], accessed on 15 December 2022, .
As usual, is the set of all natural number , the set of all integer and the set of all integer . In a previous paper we considered the case where is an integer by taking an even integer (i.e., ) and is a negative integer and we gave the right identity [7]. In this contribution, we consider the case where is an integer by taking (i.e., is an odd integer) and is a negative integer and we give and prove the new identity. The aim of this paper is to prove the following theorem.
Theorem 1.
For the isolated cases (α is a negative integer and or ), the Kummer’s hypergeometric quadratic transformations become
, which we wrote under the form
and
which we wrote under the form
and as a consequence we prove that
and
Please note here that when is either an even or odd non-positive integer then the series is well-defined with finitely many terms and the series is a series with infinitely many terms and when is either an even or odd positive integer then the series is well-defined with infinitely many terms and the series is a series with finitely many terms thus the restriction due to the their convergence should be satisfied once, i.e., either or (not simultaneously).
Let us first give the Maple instructions in order to assure the readers that the results we are giving are true and right.
restart; F1 := proc (alpha, beta, z) options operator, arrow;
hypergeom([(1/2)*beta, (1/2)*beta+1/2], [alpha+1/2], z^2/(2-z)^2)
end proc; F2 := proc (alpha, beta, z) options operator, arrow;
(1-(1/2)*z)^beta*hypergeom([alpha, beta], [2*alpha], z) end proc; u
:= proc (alpha, beta, z) options operator, arrow;
2*(z/(2-z))^(beta-1-2*alpha)*sqrt(Pi)*pochhammer((1/2)*beta,
-alpha+1)
*hypergeom([1-(1/2)*beta, 1/2+alpha-(1/2)*beta], [3/2], (2-z)^2/z^2)
*((4*z-4)/(2-z)^2)^(alpha-beta)/GAMMA(-alpha+1/2) end proc;
v := proc (alpha, beta, z) options operator, arrow;
-(z/(2-z))^(beta-2*alpha)*sqrt(Pi)*pochhammer((1/2)*beta+1/2,
-alpha)
*hypergeom([alpha-(1/2)*beta, 1/2-(1/2)*beta], [1/2], (2-z)^2/z^2)
*((4*z-4)/(2-z)^2)^(alpha-beta)/GAMMA(-alpha+1/2) end proc;
simplify(F1(-8, 4, z)-F2(-8, 4, z)-u(-8, 4, z));
0
simplify(F1(-8, -5, z)-F2(-8, -5, z)-v(-8, -5, z));
0
simplify(F1(-8, 4, z)+v(-8, 4, z));
0
simplify(F1(-8, -5, z)+u(-8, -5, z));
0
We change the notations to be much more convenient. The letter n denotes, in general, the integers so let us denote by is an integer greater than 0. The expression should be an integer then we take with
Here we have two situations for the integer :
- either a is itself an integer, i.e., and in this case we have
- or a is itself a negative integer, i.e., and this situation is solved only by using the Pochhammer symbol in the formula of :and (8) remains true,
As an interesting consequence of our new expressions and we prove that
Please note the following that this paper is a continuation of [7].
Many authors dealt with the quadratic transformation (2) recorded in [8,9,10,11] but always with the restrictions are not natural numbers and is not an integer (see Gradshteyn, Ryzhik, 9.130). This paper deals with some isolated cases related to as an integer and will be organized as follows. First we prove promptly that the result published in [7] does not hold for . Second, for any we give and prove some relations involving and . Finally we prove (12) and (13).
2. No Concordance with Previous Result
For let us prove first that
and
Proof.
In fact, with and and taking into account the "+" sign we get
and
One can use the following Maple instructions
restart; F1 := proc (n, a, z) options operator, arrow;
hypergeom([a+1/2, a], [-n+3/2], z^2) end proc; F2 := proc (n, a, z)
options operator, arrow; hypergeom([2*a, -n+1], [-2*n+2],
2*z/(1+z))/(1+z)^(2*a) end proc; u := proc (n, a, z) options
operator, arrow; 2*z^(2*a-3+2*n)*sqrt(Pi)*pochhammer(a, n)
*hypergeom([1-a, 3/2-n-a], [3/2], 1/z^2)
*(z^2-1)^(-n+1-2*a)/GAMMA(n-1/2) end proc;
factor(simplify(F1(2, 5/2, z)-F2(2, 5/2, z))); factor(simplify(F1(2,
5/2, z)-F2(2, 5/2, z)-u(2, 5/2, z)));
□
Here is another curious counter-example. If we take and we find
3. Relations between These Hypergeometric Series
In order to use all the results of [7], we need to find some relations involving the first sum and the second sum .
3.1. Relations Involving the First Sum
In the following lemma, we give three relations involving .
Lemma 1.
For any positive integer n and for any we have the following results
3.2. Relations Involving the Second Sum
In the following lemma we give three relations involving .
Lemma 2.
For any positive integer n and for any we have the following results
Proof.
First, let us prove (18) and let us prove it for the "+"sign,
To prove (19) we begin by considering the following change of variable for the + sign
whereas for the − sign we assume
For the + sign, we should prove that
Using the following relation
the LHS vanishes. □
Lemma 3.
In the following lemma, we give these relations involving and .
as well as
3.3. Relations between New Added Terms
Using this lemma, (2) and results given in [7] we give the following result
Theorem 2.
For any we have the following results
as well as
Proof.
Using results of [7] we have
and for we have
If we combine all these quantities together we obtain
□
In the following proposition, we give the simplified expression of
Lemma 4.
Notation 1.
In the sequel, we denote by
and
Consequence 1.
For any we have the following result
For any we have the following result
Proof.
Let us begin by proving that Let us compute first and :
because is an odd integer (among the conditions of the convergence of the series we should add ).
The same calculations lead to
because is an even integer.
With in (26) we get
which, taking into account and , gives . Similarly with in (26) we get
which gives . Then, by recurrence, it is easy to prove that .
The same steps lead to the proof of . □
Remark 1.
The explanation of the consequence is as follows: for some values of and for some values of we have arrived to write a new identity between a well-defined series with infinitely many terms and a well-defined series with finitely many terms as follows
- for and the series is well defined with infinitely many terms is equal to the series which is well-defined with finitely many terms.
- For and the series is well defined with finitely many terms whereas the series is well defined with finitely many terms provided that .
- For and the series is well defined with infinitely many terms is equal to the series which is well-defined with finitely many terms. For and the series is well defined with infinitely many terms whereas the series is well defined with finitely many terms provided that .
One can use the following Maple instructions
restart; F1 := proc (n, a, z) options operator, arrow;
hypergeom([a+1/2, a], [-n+3/2], z^2) end proc; F2 := proc (n, a, z)
options operator, arrow; hypergeom([2*a, -n+1], [-2*n+2],
2*z/(1+z))/(1+z)^(2*a) end proc; u := proc (n, a, z) options
operator, arrow; 2*z^(2*a-3+2*n)*sqrt(Pi)*pochhammer(a, n)
*hypergeom([1-a, 3/2-n-a], [3/2], 1/z^2)
*(z^2-1)^(-n+1-2*a)/GAMMA(n-1/2) end proc;
v := proc (n, a, z) options operator, arrow;
-z^(2*a-2+2*n)*sqrt(Pi)*pochhammer(a+1/2, n-1)
*hypergeom([1/2-a, 1-n-a], [1/2], 1/z^2)
*(z^2-1)^(-n+1-2*a)/GAMMA(n-1/2) end proc;
factor(simplify(F1(2, -5, z)-F2(2, -5, z)-u(2, -5, z)));
0
factor(simplify(F1(2, -5/2, z)-F2(2, -5/2, z)-v(2, -5/2, z)));
0
factor(simplify(F1(n, a+1/2, z)-F1(n, a, z)+ (2*a+1)*z^2*F1(n-1, a+1, z)/(2*n-3)));
0
factor(simplify(F2(n, a+1/2, z)-F2(n, a, z)+ (2*a+1)*z^2*F2(n-1, a+1, z)/(2*n-3)));
0
factor(simplify(u(n, a+1/2, z)-v(n, a, z) +(2*a+1)*z^2*v(n-1, a+1, z)/(2*n-3)));
0
factor(simplify(v(n, a+1/2, z)-u(n, a, z) +(2*a+1)*z^2*u(n-1, a+1, z)/(2*n-3)));
0
4. Open Problem
By the same technique, we are working on other well-known quadratic transformations available in the literature. The work is under investigation and will form a part of the subsequent paper in this direction.
Author Contributions
M.J.A. and A.S.A.-M. contributed equally to this work. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research was funded by Qassim university. The researchers would like to thank the Deanship of Scientific Research, Qassim University for funding the publication of this paper.
Institutional Review Board Statement
Not applicable.
Informed Consent Statement
Not applicable.
Data Availability Statement
Data is contained within the article.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank either the editor and the referees for the time and effort to review this paper or Rathie A.K. for helpfull discussions. Their remarks and comments helped us to revise this paper and to make it clearer and more concise.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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