Recurrence relations for the coefficients of the confluent and Gauss hypergeometric functions in the complex plane
Complex Variables
2026-01-16 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs
Abstract
For , where is the complex plane, , let \begin{equation*} \mathcal{M}\left( z\right) =\left( 1-\theta z\right) ^{p}M\left(a;c;z\right) =\sum_{n=0}^{\infty }u_{n}z^{n}, \end{equation*} where , , and let \begin{equation*} \mathcal{G}\left( z\right) =(1-\theta z) ^{p}F(a,b;c;z) =\sum_{n=0}^{\infty }v_{n} z^{n}, \end{equation*} where , . In this paper, we prove that the coefficients and for satisfy a 3-order recurrence relation. These offer a new way to study confluent hypergeometric function and Gauss hypergeometric function . And we provide other special functions' recurrence relations of their coefficients, such as error function, Bessel function, incomplete gamma function, complete elliptic integral and Chebyshev polynomials.
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@article{arxiv.2601.10040,
title = {Recurrence relations for the coefficients of the confluent and Gauss hypergeometric functions in the complex plane},
author = {Zi-Qiao Xu and Zhong-Xuan Mao and Jing-Feng Tian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.10040},
year = {2026}
}