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Relations among complementary and supplementary pairings of Saalschutzian 4F3(1) series

Group Theory 2014-10-13 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs Combinatorics

Abstract

We investigate sums K(x)K(\vec{x}) and L(x)L(\vec{x}) of pairs of (suitably normalized) Saalsch\"utzian 4F3(1){}_4F_3(1) hypergeometric series, and develop a theory of relations among these KK and LL functions. The function L(x)L(\vec{x}) 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 x\vec{x}. More recent works have framed these relations in terms of Coxeter group actions on x\vec{x}, and have developed a similar theory of two-term and three-term relations for K(x)K(\vec{x}). In this article, we derive "mixed" three-term relations, wherein any one of the LL (respectively, KK) functions arising in the above context may be expressed as a linear combination of two of the above KK (respectively, LL) functions. We show that, under the appropriate Coxeter group action, the resulting set of three-term relations (mixed and otherwise) among KK and LL 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 KK and LL 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 KK and LL 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}
}