An approximation for zero-balanced Appell function F₁ near (1,1)

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Abstract: We suggest an approximation for the zero-balanced Appell hypergeometric function F1 near the singular point (1,1). Our approximation can be viewed as a generalization of Ramanujan's approximation for zero-balanced 2F1 and is expressed in terms of 3F2. We find an error bound and prove some basic properties of the suggested approximation which reproduce the similar properties of the Appell function. Our approximation reduces to the approximation of Carlson-Gustafson when the Appell function reduces to the first incomplete elliptic integral.


The main result may be stated as follows. Let \(a\), \(b_1\), \(b_2\) be positive constants. Then, as \(x\) and \(y\) tend towards 1 on the interval \((0,1)\), \[ {\Gamma(a)\Gamma(b_1+ b_2)\over \Gamma(a+ b_1+ b_2)} F_1[a; b_1, b_2; a+ b_1+ b_2; x, y] \] is asymptotically equal to \[ \ln{1\over 1-x}+ \gamma(a, b_1+ b_2)+ {b_2(y- x)\over (b_1+ b_2)(1- x)}{_3F_2} \Biggl[\begin{matrix} 1,1,b_2+ 1\\ 2,b_1+ b_2+ 1\end{matrix}\,\Biggl|\,{y-x\over 1-x}\Biggr]. \] The remainder is positive and \(O(r\ln(r))\), where \(r= (1- x)b_1+ (1- y)b_2\); moreover, \(\gamma(a, b)= 2\psi(1)- \psi(a)- \psi(b)\), where \(\psi\) is the logarithmic derivative of the gamma function. The result is compared with approximations by Ramanujan for the zero-balanced \({_2F_1}\) and by Carlson and Gustafson for the incomplete elliptic integral of the first kind.











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