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89Probl. Anal. Issues Anal. Vol. 7 (25), No. 2, 2018, pp. 39-46
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DOI: 10.15393/j3.art.2018.4490
UDC 517.588, 511.4
V. A. Gorelov
ON CONTIGUITY RELATIONS FOR GENERALIZED HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
Abstract. We derive formulas that generalize contiguity relations of Gauss hypergeometric functions to the case of hypergeometric functions satisfying differential equations of arbitrary order and also of solution matrices of their corresponding homogeneous differential equations.
Key words: generalized hypergeometric functions, contiguous functions, Siegel's method
2010 Mathematical Subject Classification: 33C20, 11J91
1. Introduction. Let A be the set of all algebraic numbers, Z+ = N U {0}, Z- = Z \ N, SJi be the Kronecker delta, C(z) be the set of all rational functions with coefficients from C, C[z±1] be the ring C[z,z-1], M(q, K) be the set of all q x q matrices with elements from a ring K and GL(q, K ) be the general linear group in M (q, K ).
The functions
i <pq (z) = i ^ (V; A; z) = i+iFg ( ^^ ' ' ' ^V z] = ^
\ !)''') q / n=o
(v1)n ' ' '(vl)n zn
(^l)n . . . (Aq)n
where 0 ^ l ^ q, (v)0 = 1, (v)n = v(v + 1) ... (v + n - 1), A G (C \ Z-)q, V = (v1,... ,vi) G Cl are called generalized hypergeometric functions (see [1,2,6,7,9]).
The function (v; A; z) satisfies the (generalized) hypergeometric differential equation
L(v; A; z) y = (Ai - 1)... (Aq - 1) (1)
(see [9], Chap. 5, §1, formula (5)), where
q l d z) = TT(5 + A,- 1)- zTT(5 + vk), 5 = z
L(V; A; z) = H(5 + Aj - 1) - zJJ(5 + Vk), 5 j=i k=i
dz
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The properties of the functions
iFq-i(V; A; z) = iFq-i
vi,. A2,..
. , V .,Aq
z =
X
Y
n=0
(vi)n . . . (v)
n!(A2)n ... (Aq)
n zn
qjn
satisfying homogeneous linear differential equations were studied most minutely. We assume that the vector A related to the function iFq-1(V; A;z) contains a component equal to 1, and this component is automatically moved to the first position.
A lot of functions used in mathematics are hypergeometric (ez, Gauss hypergeometric functions, Kummer functions) or can be easily expressed using them (sinz, cos z, sinh z, coshz, Bessel functions, "incomplete" gamma-function and some other special functions).
Description of algebraic properties of the generalized hypergeometric functions and solutions of the generalized hypergeometric equations in general is still far from completion despite long history of their investigation. They are interesting for calculus in the broad sense of the word and for applications. The Siegel-Shidlovskii method (see, for example, [9]), is one of the main methods in the theory of transcendental numbers; it permits to establish the transcendency and the algebraic independence of the values of entire functions of some class that contains the functions 1 (azq-i) (a E A) if these functions are algebraically independent over C(z).
The simplest identities between hypergeometric functions were found by Euler and Gauss. In particular, Gauss found (see, for example, [6], Sec. 6.2.2) linear equations for his hypergeometric function 2F1; these equations bind this function with the so-called contiguous functions. If ^ is a hypergeometric function, then the functions
^(vfc±) = <^(vi,... , vfc ± 1,... , Vi; Ai,... , Aq; z)
and ^(Ak±) (which are defined similarly) are said to be contiguous to <£. Functions, whose parameters differ from those of the original hypergeometric function by integer values, are said to be associated with
For the vectors /2 = (/4,...,/n), f = (ni,...,nn) we shall write /2 ~ n if there exists a permutation n of the numbers 1,..., n such that / — nn(i) E Z, i = 1,...,n. We shall also use the notation Y/2 + ^ = (y/1 + ^,...,7/n + where 7,^ E C. The expression (V; A) ~ y(/2; n) + fl means that V ~ y/2 + ^, A ~ Yf + ^. Equation 1 is said to be linearly reducible (linearly homogeneously reducible) if
it has a solution y ^ 0 such that y,y',... , y(q-1) are linearly dependent with 1 (linearly dependent) over C(z), and linearly irreducible (linearly homogeneously irreducible) otherwise (see [9], Chap. 10, §1).
One can notice that contiguous functions and their derivatives are expressed as linear combinations (nonhomogeneous in general) with coefficients from C(z) of the functions <£, ..., ^(q-1) (see [1], §§2.5, 3.7; [4], formula (19); [6], Secs. 5.2.2, 7.3.2; [9], Chap. 10, formula (47); [10], formula (12)). In [1,4,6,9,10] the cases q = l = 2, Ai = 1; q = l, Ai = 1; q = 2, l = Ai = 1; l = 0; l = 0, q/2 E N are considered correspondingly. The coefficient of ±) (or ^(Ak±)) can be identically zero for certain admissible values of the parameters of the functions. The corresponding differential equations are linearly reducible in such cases. For V E Z-, the conditions (found by Salikhov, see [8], Theorem 8) V — Aj E Z, 1 ^ i ^ l, 1 ^ j ^ q or the existence of a divisor d > 1 of the numbers l and q such that (V; A) + 1/d ~ (V; A) are necessary and sufficient for linear reducibility.
The author [5] has made an attempt to give a compact description of contiguity relations for arbitrary generalized hypergeometric functions (see [5], Lemma 12). However, the statement of this lemma can not be transferred to hypergeometric functions with finite radii of convergence of their power series (i. e., when l = q), and the proof in some cases was not correct. The contiguity relations can be written as fi = fi f + c, where / =(/,/',...,/ (q-i))T, fi E M (q, C(z)), c E (C(z))q, p = ^q (V; A; z), </?i is the function ±) or </?(Ak±), the symbol T means transposition. If
f (v±) = f +cv±, f (A±) = fiA± f +cA±,
then it is easy to see that = (v—), cv_ = — fiv_cv+(V—), fiA+ = = (A+), cA+ = — fiA+cA_(A+). The parameter V (and also A) in this notation is arbitrarily taken from the set {v1, ..., V} (or {Ai,..., Aq}). The symbol +(v—) designates the matrix which is obtained from by the substitution V ^ V — 1 in its entries, where V is the chosen parameter. The symbols fiA_(A+), cv+(v—), ca_(A+) are defined similarly.
2. Main results. We present an algorithm for finding contiguity relations and also their generalizations to the case of associated functions and solution matrices $ of their corresponding homogeneous differential equations ¿(Vj; Ai; z)y = 0 in the proof of the following theorem. The matrix $ for the equation L(V; A; z)y = 0 is a solution matrix of the corresponding first order vector equation. In this theorem we also solve the
problem of cogradience (see definition in [3], Sec. 1) of the hypergeometric equations, whose parameters differ by integer values.
Theorem 1. Suppose that V e Cl, A e (C \ Z-)q, q ^ max(2,1),
0 = l0q(Й; a*; z), the equation L(Vj; a*; z)y = 0 is linearly homogeneously irreducible, is an arbitrary solution matrix of this equation, for i = 1, 2, and (Vi; Ai) ~ (v2; A2). Then there exist matrices
Q e GL(q,C[z±1, (1 - z)-£]), C e GL(q,C)
and a vector c e (C[z±1,(1 — z)-£])q, e = ^q such that
01 = Q02 + С, Ф1 = ПФ2 C.
The proof of the Theorem 1 requires the following lemma.
Lemma 1. [5, lemma 1] The function (or, for l > q, the formal power series) zYi0q(V; A; azp), where V e Cl, A e (C \Z-)q, a, 7 e C, 1,q e Z+,
1 + q = 0, p e Z, satisfies the differential equation
lq
+ p(Aj — 1) — Y) — apq-lzp + PVi — Y) У = PqzY П^ — 1),
vi=1 i=1 / i=1
the empty product of brackets equals 1.
Corollary 1. If a* — Ak e Z, i = k, and q ^ max(1,Z), then the functions z(1-Ak)piFq-1(V +1 — Afc; A + 1 — Afc; azp), k = 1,..., q (2) constitute the fundamental system of solution of the equation
L(V; A; azp)y = 0,
where
ql
L(V; A; azp) = П(^ + P(A — 1)) — apq-1 zp П^ + P^i),
i=1 i=1
is obtained from L(V; A; z)y = 0 by the substitution z ^ azp. Proof of the Corollary 1. By the Lemma 1, the functions
z(1-Ak )pi0q (V +1 — Afc; A + 1 — Afc; azp), k = 1,...,q,
satisfy the equation L(v; A; azp)y = 0, are linearly independent over C, and can be written as (2), because the k-th component of the vector A +1 — Ak equals 1. □
As it follows from the Lemma 1, the equation L(v; A; azp)y = 0 for q ^ l has the form
(1 - azp)£zqy(q) + ((Ai + ■ ■ ■ + Aq - q)p + (q - 1)2 - eiapzp-
-ea ((vi + ■ ■ ■ + vq)p + (q - 1)2) zp) zq-1y(q-1)+ (3)
+ ■ ■ ■ + pq((Ai - 1)... (Aq - 1) - avi... vizp)y = 0, where e = 5q, ei = 5q+i. The Wronskian of this equation equals
W = CZ-(Al+-----+Aq-9)P-(9-1)?/2(1 _ aZp)(Al+^+Aq-vl"-vq-q)ee«zP£i , (4)
where c G C \ {0}.
Proof of the Theorem 1. We start with the following remark. Suppose that ^ is a solution matrix of some linear homogeneous system y ' = Ay, Q = Q(z) and C are arbitrary non-singular matrices of the same size as A = A(z), C does not depend on z. Elementary calculations show that = Q^C is a solution matrix of the system y ' = A1y, where A1 = (Q' + QA)Q-1. On the other hand, if is a solution matrix of the system y ' = A1y, then, setting = Q-1^1, we obtain
^2 = (Q-1^1)' = -Q-1Q'Q-1^1 + Q-1A1^1 = AQ-1^1 = A^2,
whence = ^C and = Q^C. If —, —1 are arbitrary solutions of linear systems y ' = Ay + c and y ' = A1y + <c1 respectively, where —1 = Q— + c2, then we obtain A1 = (Q' + QA)Q-1 again. Hence, the equality —1 = Q— + c2 for some solutions of initial systems implies the equality = Q^C for arbitrary solution matrices of the homogeneous systems that correspond to the initial ones. If Q G M(q, C(z)), c, c1,c2 G (C(z))q, then in the case of linear irreducibility (or linear homogeneous irreducibility of the corresponding homogeneous systems) matrices Q and A1 are determined uniquely, and Q is always non-singular.
To prove the theorem, it suffices to restrict ourselves to the case in which v1,j = v2j = Vj, A1,t = A2,t = At for all parameters except the one whose values differ by 1. Assume that this parameter is vk, 1 ^ k ^ l.
Suppose that vk = v2,k = v1k — 1. Differentiating the identity Vfc ( 2 ( Vfc + ) = (£ + Vfc ) ( 2 = Vfc ( 2 + z (
(see [6], Sec. 5.2.2), q — 1 times, we find
Vk f1 = Hf2 + (0,..., 0, bz1-q(1 — z)_)T,
where b = (A1 — 1)... (Aq — 1), H is such a matrix that its j-th row for j = q contains only two nonzero entries: aj,j = vk + j — 1 and aj-,j+1 = z, while the entries in the q-th row are already obtained from the coefficients of the equation L(V2; A2; z)y = b and, by (3), belong to C[z±1, (1 — z)_£]. From the linear irreducibility of the equations under consideration the inequalities vk = 0 and |H| ^ 0 follow. Aforesaid means that $1 = H$2C, and from here, taking equality (4) and inclusion |H| E C[z±1, (1 — z)_£] into account, we obtain |Q| = azn(1 — z)m£, a E C\ {0}, n, m E {0,1, — 1}, H E GL(q, C[z±1, (1 — z)_£]).
From here, in the case of an increase (and, hence, also a decrease) of Vk by 1, the assertion of the theorem holds.
If V1,j = V2,j = Vj, A1,t = A2,t = At for all parameters except Ak, 1 ^ k ^ q, similar arguments and the identity
(Afc — 1)((Afc—) = (Afc — 1)( + z ('
are used. The theorem is proved. □ 3. Examples. We obtain
Q
v+
1 V
V
V
V - A + 1 + z
Q
a- =
A1
A - 1 z
V
by the algorithm presented in the proof of the Theorem 1 for Kummer functions
X
Aa,v(z) = 1(2(v; 1, A; z) = 1F1 ( A z) = Y
A n=0
(V)
n!(A)
n zn,
while for Gauss hypergeometric functions
2( 2(v /;1,A;z) = 2Fi ( z) = Y
(V)n(/ )n
=0 n!(A)
nVFvn zn
n=0
1
z
z
n
n
we obtain, similarly,
Q
V(1 - z) z(1 - z)
v (1 - z) \ V^ V - A +1+ ^z
Q__ 1 ( (A - 1)(1 - z) z(1 - z)
(A - 1)(1 - z) V (v + ^ - A + 1)z
The proved Theorem 1 can be easily generalized to the case of functions i^q(v; A; azp) by means of the substitution z ^ azp. Here a G C, p G N. For example, for functions
1
= ^ + ^ + 1;—zV4) = E (A + l)„(/, + 1)„ (2)
introduced by Shidlovskii (see [9], Chap. 6, §5]), we obtain
1 ( 2Az z2 \ ^ ( 0
4A^ —2^z J
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Received March 4, 2018.
In revised form, September 12, 2018.
Accepted September 13, 2018.
Published online October 15, 2018.
National Research University «Moscow Power Engineering Institute» 14 Krasnokazarmennaya str., Moscow 111250, Russia E-mail: gorelov.va@mail.ru
