Sharp Landen transformation inequalities for hypergeometric functions, with applications (Q2633702)

The authors present sharp Landen transformation inequalities for the hypergeometric functions ${}_2F_1(a, b; a + b; x)$ and ${}_2F_1(a, b; (a + b + 1)/2; x)$, where $a,b$ are real numbers and $|x|<1$. Let $F_0(r)={}_2F_1\left(\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2};1;r\right)$. Hence, the results obtained here concern the answer to the following question: \par To what extent, can the identities \[ F_0\left(\frac{4r}{(1+r)^2}\right)=(1+r)F_0(r^2)\, , \quad F_0\left(\left(\frac{1-r}{1+r}\right)^2\right)=\frac{1+r}{2}F_0(r'^2) \] be extended to the zero-balanced hypergeometric function ${}_2F_1(a, b; a + b; x)$ or even some other hypergeometric functions for $a, b \in (0, \infty)$ and $r \in (0, 1)$ ($r'$ is the complementary modulus)?