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Parametric transformations between the Heun and Gauss hypergeometric functions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2013-10-04 v2

Abstract

The hypergeometric and Heun functions are classical special functions. Transformation formulas between them are commonly induced by pull-back transformations of their differential equations, with respect to some coverings P1-to-P1. This gives expressions of Heun functions in terms of better understood hypergeometric functions. This article presents the list of hypergeometric-to-Heun pull-back transformations with a free continuous parameter, and illustrates most of them by a Heun-to-hypergeometric reduction formula. In total, 61 parametric transformations exist, of maximal degree 12.

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@article{arxiv.0910.3087,
  title  = {Parametric transformations between the Heun and Gauss hypergeometric functions},
  author = {Raimundas Vidunas and Galina Filipuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3087},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

One-parameter transformations added; 35 pages, 6 tables

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