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In the paper we consider the Heun functions, which are solutions of the equation introduced by Karl Heun in 1889. The Heun functions generalize many known special functions and appear in many fields of modern physics. Evaluation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Oleg V. Motygin

Perturbations in a draining vortex can be described analytically in terms of confluent Heun functions. In the context of analogue models of gravity in ideal fluids, we investigate analytically the absorption length of waves in a draining…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-15 Leandro A. Oliveira , Carolina L. Benone , Amanda L. Almeida , Luís C. B. Crispino

The Heun's equation is the Fuchsian equation of second order with four regular singularities. Heun functions generalize well-known special functions such as Spheroidal Wave, Lam\'{e}, Mathieu, hypergeometric-type functions, etc. The…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Yoon-Seok Choun

In the paper we deal with the Heun functions --- solutions of the Heun equation, which is the most general Fuchsian equation of second order with four regular singular points. Despite the increasing interest to the equation and numerous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-12 Oleg V. Motygin

We discuss the applications of Gauge Theory of Gravity (GTG) within the language of geometric algebra to black holes and Hawking radiation. Applications include the Unruh effect, the Dirac and Klein-Gordon equations in several backgrounds,…

General Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 S. Setiawan

Just as with the Gauss hypergeometric function, particular cases of the local Heun function can be Liouvillian (that is, "elementary") functions. One way to obtain these functions is by pull-back transformations of Gauss hypergeometric…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-02-05 Raimundas Vidunas

The present article reveals important properties of the confluent Heun's functions. We derive a set of novel relations for confluent Heun's functions and their derivatives of arbitrary order. Specific new subclasses of confluent Heun's…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Plamen P. Fiziev

A complete classification of Belyi functions for transforming certain hypergeometric equations to Heun equations is given. The considered hypergeometric equations have the local exponent differences 1/k,1/l,1/m that satisfy k,l,m in N and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Mark van Hoeij , Raimundas Vidunas

Master functions of black holes are fundamental tools in gravitational-wave physics and are typically derived within a Lagrangian framework. Starting from the Kantowski-Sachs geometry, one can instead construct a perturbative Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Michele Lenzi , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán , Andrés Mínguez-Sánchez

We consider some hypergeometric functions and prove that they are elementary functions. Consequently, the second order moments of Meyer-Konig and Zeller type operators are elementary functions. The higher order moments of these operators…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-01-01 Ana Maria Acu , Ioan Rasa

We provide a set of diagonals of simple rational functions of three and four variables that are squares of Heun functions. These Heun functions obtained through creative telescoping, turn out to be either pullbacked $_2F_1$ hypergeometric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Y. Abdelaziz , S. Boukraa , C. Koutschan , J-M. Maillard

Analysis of black hole spacetimes requires study of the motion of particles and light in these spacetimes. Here exact solutions of the geodesic equations are the means of choice. Numerous interesting black hole spacetimes have been analyzed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-14 Saskia Grunau , Jutta Kunz

We present a novel method that solves Teukolsky equations with the source to calculate radiation fluxes at infinity and event horizon for any perturbation fields of type-D black holes. For the first time, we use the confluent Heun function…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-13 Changkai Chen , Jiliang Jing

In the research paper [1], the analytical solution of semi-classical rotating black holes (BH) in loop quantum gravity theory (LQG) is obtained, but an unknown function $H$ is still preserved. In this note, we obtain an expression for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-01 Zhaoyi Xu

We present some recent progresses on Heun functions, gathering results from classical analysis up to elliptic functions. We describe Picard's generalization of Floquet's theory for differential equations with doubly periodic coefficients…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Galliano Valent

We find transformations of variables which preserve the form of the equation for the kernels of integral relations among solutions of the Heun equation. These transformations lead to new kernels for the Heun equation, given by single…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Léa Jaccoud El-Jaick , Bartolomeu D. B. Figueiredo

In this work we establish new forms of Heun-to-Heun transformations and Heun-to-Hypergeometric transformations. The transformations are realised by changing the independent variable in a non-linear way. Using these we also point out some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yves Gaspar

We give examples where the Heun function exists in general relativity. It turns out that while a wave equation written in the background of certain metric yields Mathieu functions as its solutions in four space-time dimensions, the trivial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Birkandan , M. Hortacsu

This work is devoted to investigate some consequences of black holes physics beyond the domain of general relativity, mainly in effective extra dimensional models. The investigation is carried along three gravitational effects, namely the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-28 Rogerio Teixeira Cavalcanti

We introduce new hypergeometric series expansions of the solutions to the general Heun equation. The form of the Gauss hypergeometric functions used as expansion function differs from that used before. We derive three such expansions and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-08 R. Sokhoyan , D. Melikdzanian , A. Ishkhanyan