How can we escape Thomae's relations?

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/1145287098zbMATH Open1092.33006arXivmath/0502276OpenAlexW2170060395MaRDI QIDQ819563FDOQ819563

Authors: C. Krattenthaler, T. Rivoal 

Publication date: 29 March 2006

Published in: Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 1879, Thomae discussed the relations between two generic hypergeometric ${}_3{F}_2$-series with argument 1. It is well-known since then that there are 120 such relations (including the trivial ones which come from permutations of the parameters of the hypergeometric series). More recently, Rhin and Viola asked the following question (in a different, but equivalent language of integrals): If there exists a linear dependence relation over $mathbfQ$ between two convergent ${}_3{F}_2$-series with argument 1, with integral parameters, and whose values are irrational numbers, is this relation a specialisation of one of the 120 Thomae relations? A few years later, Sato answered this question in the negative, by giving six examples of relations which cannot be explained by Thomae's relations. We show that Sato's counter-examples can be naturally embedded into two families of infinitely many ${}_3{F}_2$-relations, both parametrised by three independent parameters. Moreover, we find two more infinite families of the same nature. The families, which do not seem to have been recorded before, come from certain ${}_3{F}_2$-transformation formulae and contiguous relations. We also explain in detail the relationship between the integrals of Rhin and Viola and ${}_3{F}_2$-series.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0502276

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zbMATH Keywords

hypergeometric seriesmultiple integralscontiguous relationsirrationality of zeta valuesThomae transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized hypergeometric series, ({}_pF_q) (33C20) Irrationality; linear independence over a field (11J72)

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