English

Connections between the Generalized Marcum Q-Function and a class of Hypergeometric Functions

Information Theory 2020-04-02 v1 math.IT

Abstract

This paper presents a new connection between the generalized Marcum-Q function and the confluent hypergeometric function of two variables, phi3. This result is then applied to the closed-form characterization of the bivariate Nakagami-m distribution and of the distribution of the minimum eigenvalue of correlated non-central Wishart matrices, both important in communication theory. New expressions for the corresponding cumulative distributions are obtained and a number of communication-theoretic problems involving them are pointed out.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1303.5464,
  title  = {Connections between the Generalized Marcum Q-Function and a class of Hypergeometric Functions},
  author = {D. Morales-Jimenez and F. J. Lopez-Martinez and E. Martos-Naya and J. F. Paris and A. Lozano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.5464},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

The manuscript has been submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. It contains 13 pages and 1 figure

R2 v1 2026-06-21T23:46:17.665Z