On the evaluation of the Appell F₂ double hypergeometric function

Classical hypergeometric functions, ({}_2F_1) (33C05) Appell, Horn and Lauricella functions (33C65) Numerical approximation and evaluation of special functions (33F05) Symbolic computation of special functions (Gosper and Zeilberger algorithms, etc.) (33F10) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20)

Abstract: The transformation theory of the Appell

F_{2} (a, b_{1}, b_{2}; c_{1}, c_{2}; x, y)

double hypergeometric function is used to obtain a set of series representations of

F_{2}

which provide an efficient way to evaluate

F_{2}

for real values of its arguments

x

and

y

and generic complex values of its parameters

a, b_{1}, b_{2}, c_{1}

and

c_{2}

(i.e. in the nonlogarithmic case). This study rests on a classical approach where the usual double series representation of

F_{2}

and other double hypergeometric series that appear in the intermediate steps of the calculations are written as infinite sums of one variable hypergeometric series, such as the Gauss

_{2} F_{1}

or the

_{3} F_{2}

, various linear transformations of the latter being then applied to derive known and new formulas. Using the three well-known Euler transformations of

F_{2}

on these results allows us to obtain a total of 44 series which form the basis of the Mathematica package AppellF2, dedicated to the evaluation of

F_{2}

. A brief description of the package and of the numerical analysis that we have performed to test it are also presented.

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