Appell hypergeometric expansions of the solutions of the general Heun equation

DOI10.1007/S00365-018-9424-8MaRDI QIDQ2631949zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. M. Ishkhanyan

Publication date 16 May 2019

Published in Constructive Approximation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2871

zbMATH Keywords

Appell functionEuler representationexpansionsFrobenius solutionFuscian differential equationHeun differential equationhypergeometric functionrecurrence relationssingular points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Series expansions of functions of one complex variable (30Bxx) Other functions coming from differential, difference and integral equations (33E30) Special ordinary differential equations (Mathieu, Hill, Bessel, etc.) (34B30)

Abstract: Starting from the equation obeyed by the derivative, we construct several expansions of the solutions of the general Heun equation in terms of the Appell generalized hypergeometric functions of two variables of the fist kind. Several cases when the expansions reduce to ones written in terms of simpler mathematical functions such as the incomplete Beta function or the Gauss hypergeometric function are identified. The conditions for deriving finite-sum solutions via termination of the series are discussed. In general, the coefficients of the expansions obey four-term recurrence relations; however, there exist certain sets of the parameters for which the recurrence relations involve only two terms, though not successive. The coefficients of the expansions are then explicitly calculated and the general solution of the Heun equation is constructed in terms of the Gauss hypergeometric functions.

Review text

This paper presents several expansions of the solution of the Heun equation in terms of Appell generalized hypergeometric functions of two variables of the first kind. \par Some cases where the expansion is expressed in terms of simpler mathematical functions such as incomplete beta function or the Gauss hypergeometric function are identified. Conditions for deriving a finite-sum solution by termination of the series are discussed. \par It is shown that even though the coefficients of the expansion in general obey a four-term recurrence relation there exists certain choices of parameters for which the recurrence relation involve only two terms. And for such cases, the general solution of the Heun equation is constructed in terms of Gauss hypergeometric functions. \par The content of the paper gives an introduction to the subject and it displays the different expansions including expansions in terms of simpler mathematical functions as well as recurrence relations for expansion coefficients. All is discussed in details.

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