An explanation of Mellin's 1921 paper

DOI10.26516/1997-7670.2023.46.98MaRDI QIDQ6181004zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wayne Lawton

Publication date 22 January 2024

Published in The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00281, https://mathizv.isu.ru/en/article/file?id=1472

zbMATH Keywords

polynomialsfunctions of hypergeometric typeMellin-Barnes integral representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to several complex variables and analytic spaces (32-02) Other hypergeometric functions and integrals in several variables (33C70) Residues for several complex variables (32A27)

Abstract: In 1921 Mellin published a Comptes Rendu paper computing the principal root of the polynomial $Z^n+x_1{Z}^{n_1}+cdots+x_p{Z}^{n_p}-1$ using hypergeometric functions of its coefficients $x_1,\mathrm{...},x_p.$ He used an integral transform nowadays bearing his name. Slightly over three pages, the paper is written in French in a terse style befitting the language. Unable to find an elementary explanation on the web or in a texbook, we wrote this expository article to make Mellin's landmark result accessible to interested people who are not experts in hypergeometric functions and complex analysis.

Recommendations

• Mellin transform for monomial functions of the solution to the general polynomial system
• Mellin transforms and algebraic functions
• A direct approach to the Mellin transform
• Inversion of many-dimensional Mellin transforms and solutions of algebraic equations
• On the relation between global properties of linear difference and differential equations with polynomial coefficients. I

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3141417 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3158126 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3853473 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 107779 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 108353 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3510683 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 556501 (Why is no real title available?)
• Analytic continuations of a general algebraic function by means of Puiseux series
• Domains of Convergence for A-hypergeometric Series and Integrals
• Inversion of many-dimensional Mellin transforms and solutions of algebraic equations
• Laurent determinants and arrangements of hyperplane amoebas
• Multiple Mellin-Barnes integrals as periods of Calabi-Yau manifolds with several moduli
• On solutions and Waring's formulas for systems of \(n\) algebraic equations for \(n\) unknowns
• On solving general algebraic equations by integrals of elementary functions
• Residues and duality. Lecture notes of a seminar on the work of A. Grothendieck, given at Havard 1963/64. Appendix: Cohomology with supports and the construction of the \(f^!\) functor by P. Deligne
• Salvatore Pincherle: the pioneer of the Mellin-Barnes integrals.
• Studying the multiple Mellin--Barnes integrals by means of multidimensional residues
• The concrete tetrahedron. Symbolic sums, recurrence equations, generating functions, asymptotic estimates
• The implicit function theorem. History, theory, and applications

This page was built for publication: An explanation of Mellin's 1921 paper

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6181004)