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§16.12 Products

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Keywords:: generalized hypergeometric functions, products
Notes:: See Erdélyi et al. (1953a, §4.3). For (16.12.1) see Bailey (1928). For (16.12.2) see Clausen (1828). For (16.12.3) see Chaundy (1969, Chapter 12, Problem 12).
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See also:: Annotations for Ch.16

16.12.1		${{}_{0}F_{1}}\left(-;a;z\right){{}_{0}F_{1}}\left(-;b;z\right)={{}_{2}F_{3}}% \left({\frac{1}{2}(a+b),\frac{1}{2}(a+b-1)\atop a,b,a+b-1};4z\right).$
ⓘ Symbols: ${{}_{\NVar{p}}F_{\NVar{q}}}\left(\NVar{a_{1},\dots,a_{p}};\NVar{b_{1},\dots,b_% {q}};\NVar{z}\right)$ or ${{}_{\NVar{p}}F_{\NVar{q}}}\left({\NVar{a_{1},\dots,a_{p}}\atop\NVar{b_{1},% \dots,b_{q}}};\NVar{z}\right)$ : alternatively ${{}_{\NVar{p}}F_{\NVar{q}}}\left(\NVar{\mathbf{a}};\NVar{\mathbf{b}};\NVar{z}\right)$ or ${{}_{\NVar{p}}F_{\NVar{q}}}\left({\NVar{\mathbf{a}}\atop\NVar{\mathbf{b}}};% \NVar{z}\right)$ generalized hypergeometric function, $z$ : complex variable, $a,a_{1},\ldots,a_{p}$ : real or complex parameters and $b,b_{1},\ldots,b_{q}$ : real or complex parameters Referenced by: (10.8.3), §10.8, §10.8, §16.12, Erratum (V1.0.17) for Section 10.8 Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/16.12.E1 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §16.12 and Ch.16

16.12.2		$\left({{}_{2}F_{1}}\left({a,b\atop a+b+\frac{1}{2}};z\right)\right)^{2}={{}_{3% }F_{2}}\left({2a,2b,a+b\atop a+b+\frac{1}{2},2a+2b};z\right).$
ⓘ Symbols: ${{}_{2}F_{1}}\left(\NVar{a},\NVar{b};\NVar{c};\NVar{z}\right)$ : $=F\left(\NVar{a},\NVar{b};\NVar{c};\NVar{z}\right)$ notation for Gauss’ hypergeometric function, ${{}_{\NVar{p}}F_{\NVar{q}}}\left(\NVar{a_{1},\dots,a_{p}};\NVar{b_{1},\dots,b_% {q}};\NVar{z}\right)$ or ${{}_{\NVar{p}}F_{\NVar{q}}}\left({\NVar{a_{1},\dots,a_{p}}\atop\NVar{b_{1},% \dots,b_{q}}};\NVar{z}\right)$ : alternatively ${{}_{\NVar{p}}F_{\NVar{q}}}\left(\NVar{\mathbf{a}};\NVar{\mathbf{b}};\NVar{z}\right)$ or ${{}_{\NVar{p}}F_{\NVar{q}}}\left({\NVar{\mathbf{a}}\atop\NVar{\mathbf{b}}};% \NVar{z}\right)$ generalized hypergeometric function, $z$ : complex variable, $a,a_{1},\ldots,a_{p}$ : real or complex parameters and $b,b_{1},\ldots,b_{q}$ : real or complex parameters Referenced by: §16.12 Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/16.12.E2 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §16.12 and Ch.16

More generally,

16.12.3		$\left({{}_{2}F_{1}}\left({a,b\atop c};z\right)\right)^{2}=\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}% \frac{{\left(2a\right)_{k}}{\left(2b\right)_{k}}{\left(c-\frac{1}{2}\right)_{k% }}}{{\left(c\right)_{k}}{\left(2c-1\right)_{k}}k!}{{}_{4}F_{3}}\left({-\frac{1% }{2}k,\frac{1}{2}(1-k),a+b-c+\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2}\atop a+\frac{1}{2},b+% \frac{1}{2},\frac{3}{2}-k-c};1\right)z^{k},$
$\|z\|<1$ .
ⓘ Symbols: ${{}_{2}F_{1}}\left(\NVar{a},\NVar{b};\NVar{c};\NVar{z}\right)$ : $=F\left(\NVar{a},\NVar{b};\NVar{c};\NVar{z}\right)$ notation for Gauss’ hypergeometric function, ${{}_{\NVar{p}}F_{\NVar{q}}}\left(\NVar{a_{1},\dots,a_{p}};\NVar{b_{1},\dots,b_% {q}};\NVar{z}\right)$ or ${{}_{\NVar{p}}F_{\NVar{q}}}\left({\NVar{a_{1},\dots,a_{p}}\atop\NVar{b_{1},% \dots,b_{q}}};\NVar{z}\right)$ : alternatively ${{}_{\NVar{p}}F_{\NVar{q}}}\left(\NVar{\mathbf{a}};\NVar{\mathbf{b}};\NVar{z}\right)$ or ${{}_{\NVar{p}}F_{\NVar{q}}}\left({\NVar{\mathbf{a}}\atop\NVar{\mathbf{b}}};% \NVar{z}\right)$ generalized hypergeometric function, ${\left(\NVar{a}\right)_{\NVar{n}}}$ : Pochhammer’s symbol (or shifted factorial), $!$ : factorial (as in $n!$ ), $z$ : complex variable, $a,a_{1},\ldots,a_{p}$ : real or complex parameters and $b,b_{1},\ldots,b_{q}$ : real or complex parameters Referenced by: §16.12 Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/16.12.E3 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §16.12 and Ch.16

For further identities see Goursat (1883) and Erdélyi et al. (1953a, §4.3).

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