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Quadratic Transformations of Hypergeometric Function and Series with Harmonic Numbers

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2019-11-28 v3

Abstract

In this brief note, we show how to apply Kummer's and other quadratic transformation formulas for Gauss' and generalized hypergeometric functions in order to obtain transformation and summation formulas for series with harmonic numbers that contain one or two continuous parameters. We also give a generating function of the sequence (a)n(1a)n(n!)2Hn\frac{(a)_n (1-a)_n}{(n!)^2}H_n as a combination of Gauss hypergeometric function and elementary functions.

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@article{arxiv.1801.02428,
  title  = {Quadratic Transformations of Hypergeometric Function and Series with Harmonic Numbers},
  author = {Martin Nicholson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.02428},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

8 pages. Corollary 3 is added

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