Relations among complementary and supplementary pairings of Saalschutzian 4F3(1) series
Abstract
We investigate sums and of pairs of (suitably normalized) Saalsch\"utzian hypergeometric series, and develop a theory of relations among these and functions. The function has been studied extensively in the literature, and has been shown to satisfy a number of two-term and three-term relations with respect to the variable . More recent works have framed these relations in terms of Coxeter group actions on , and have developed a similar theory of two-term and three-term relations for . In this article, we derive "mixed" three-term relations, wherein any one of the (respectively, ) functions arising in the above context may be expressed as a linear combination of two of the above (respectively, ) functions. We show that, under the appropriate Coxeter group action, the resulting set of three-term relations (mixed and otherwise) among and functions partitions into eighteen orbits. We provide an explicit example of a relation from each orbit. We further classify the eighteen orbits into five types, with each type uniquely determined by the distances (under a certain natural metric) between the and functions in the relation. We show that the type of a relation dictates the complexity (in terms of both number of summands and number of factors in each summand) of the coefficients of the and functions therein.
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@article{arxiv.1409.5966,
title = {Relations among complementary and supplementary pairings of Saalschutzian 4F3(1) series},
author = {R. M. Green and Ilia D. Mishev and Eric Stade},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.5966},
year = {2014}
}