Partial sums of hypergeometric series of unit argument

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Abstract: The asymptotic behaviour of partial sums of generalized hypergeometric series of unit argument is investigated.


The paper deals with the asymptotic behaviour of \(f_p(m,1)\) as \(m\to\infty\), where \(f_p(m, z)\) denotes the partial sum up to and including the term involving \(z^{m-1}\), of the hypergeometric series \[ {_{p+1}F_p}[a_1,\dots, a_{p+1}; b_1,\dots, b_p; z]. \] Several cases have to be distinguished, according to the sign of \[ s_p= b_1+\cdots+ b_p- (a_1+\cdots+ a_{p+1}) \] if \(s_p\) is an integer, otherwise to the sign of \(\text{Re}(s_p)\). The asymptotic formulae obtained are too long to reproduce here. The investigation is based on the results on the analytic continuation of \({_{p+1}F_p}\) near \(z= 1\) obtained by the author some years ago [ibid. 114, 145--153 (1992; Zbl 0754.33003)], and some of the quantities there introduced indeed play an important role again.











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