General recurrence and ladder relations of hypergeometric-type functions (Q2643085)

The authors consider sequences of solutions \(y_{\nu_i}(z,\bar{c}_i),i=0,\ldots,M\) of the hypergeometric-type differential equation \[ \sigma(z)y''+\tau(z;\nu,\bar{c})y'+\lambda_{\nu}(\bar{c})y=0, \] where \(\sigma\) and \(\tau\) are polynomials of degree not greater than two and one, respectively, \(\bar{c}\) stands for a set of meaningful parameters, \(\nu\) is a solution of the equation \(\lambda(\bar{c})+\nu\tau'(\bar{c})+\frac{\nu(\nu-1)}{2}\sigma''=0.\) Under several restrictions on \(\{y_{\nu_i}\}\) it is proven that the sum rule \[ \sum_{i=0}^{N-1}A_{\nu_i,k_i}(z,\bar{c}_i)y_{\nu_i}^{(k_i)}(z;\bar{c}_i)=0\quad (3\leq N\leq M+1) \] holds with rational functions \(A_{\nu_i,k_i}(z).\)