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Elliptic Hypergeometric Functions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2017-06-21 v3 Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In these lecture notes I give an elementary introduction to elliptic hypergeometric functions. I focus on motivating the main ideas and constructions, rather than giving a comprehensive survey. The lectures include a brief explanation of the historical origin of elliptic hypergeometric functions in the context of solvable lattice models. In particular, I give a new proof of the fact that fused Boltzmann weights for the elliptic solid-on-solid model can be expressed as elliptic hypergeometric sums.

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@article{arxiv.1608.06161,
  title  = {Elliptic Hypergeometric Functions},
  author = {Hjalmar Rosengren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06161},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Lecture notes for a course given at the summer school OPSF-S6, College Park, Maryland, 11-15 July 2016. Slight improvements compared to previous version