Determinants of elliptic hypergeometric integrals

DOI10.1007/S10688-009-0037-7MaRDI QIDQ845456zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors V. P. Spiridonov, Eric Rains

Publication date 29 January 2010

Published in Functional Analysis and Its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.4253, https://authors.library.caltech.edu/17990/

zbMATH Keywords

determinantdifference equationdifference Galois theoryelliptic hypergeometric function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic integrals as hypergeometric functions (33C75)

Abstract: We start from an interpretation of the $B{C}_2$-symmetric "Type I" (elliptic Dixon) elliptic hypergeometric integral evaluation as a formula for a Casoratian of the elliptic hypergeometric equation, and give an extension to higher-dimensional integrals and higher-order hypergeometric functions. This allows us to prove the corresponding elliptic beta integral and transformation formula in a new way, by proving both sides satisfy the same difference equations, and that the difference equations satisfy a Galois-theoretical condition that ensures uniqueness of simultaneous solution.

Review text

Plain hypergeometric functions and their \(q\)-analogs can be defined as either finite series or contour integrals, more or less on an equal footing. For the recently discovered elliptic hypergeometric functions, the situation is different. Their general instances are defined only via integral representations. Elliptic beta integrals are the simplest representatives of elliptic hypergeometric integrals. In the univariate setting, there is only one elliptic integral, presently the top-level known generalization of the Euler beta integral. In the multivariable case, such integrals are grouped in three classes. The \(n\)-dimensional type I elliptic beta integrals contain \(2n+3\) free parameters and there are two known general methods of proving the corresponding exact integration formulas. The type II integrals have a smaller number of parameters and admit a straightforward derivation from the type I integrals. Both types of these exactly computable integrals admit higher order extensions with more parameters with associated transformation laws. For the \(BC_n\) root system, these are elliptic analogs of an integral due to Dixon (type I) and of Selberg's famous integral (type II with \(5+1\) parameters), respectively. Multiple elliptic beta integrals of the third class can be represented as determinants of univariate integrals, which, in their turn, are reduced to computable theta function determinants. In this paper, one starts from an interpretation of the \(BC_2\)-symmetric type I elliptic hypergeometric integral evaluation as a formula for a Casoratian of the elliptic hypergeometric equation and then generalizes this construction to higher-dimensional integrals and higher-order hypergeometric functions. This allows one to prove the corresponding formulas for the elliptic beta integral and symmetry transformation in a new way, by proving that both sides satisfy the same difference equations and that these difference equations satisfy a needed Galois-theoretic condition ensuring the uniqueness of the simultaneous solution.

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