Special function identities from superelliptic Kummer varieties

DOI10.4310/AJM.2017.V21.N5.A6MaRDI QIDQ1693284zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Adrian Clingher, C. F. Doran, Andreas Malmendier

Publication date 12 February 2018

Published in The Asian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06435

zbMATH Keywords

hypergeometric functionsproduct-quotient surfacesfibrationsKummer surfacessuperelliptic curvesspecial function identities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fibrations, degenerations in algebraic geometry (14D06) (K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Surfaces of general type (14J29) Variation of Hodge structures (algebro-geometric aspects) (14D07) Appell, Horn and Lauricella functions (33C65)

Abstract: We prove that the factorization of Appell's generalized hypergeometric series satisfying the so-called quadric property into a product of two Gauss' hypergeometric functions has a geometric origin: we first construct a generalized Kummer variety as minimal nonsingular model for a product-quotient surface with only rational double points from a pair of superelliptic curves of genus $2r-1$ with $rinmathbbN$. We then show that this generalized Kummer variety is equipped with two fibrations with fibers of genus $2r-1$. When periods of a holomorphic two-form over carefully crafted transcendental two-cycles on the generalized Kummer variety are evaluated using either of the two fibrations, the answer must be independent of the fibration and the aforementioned family of special function identities is obtained. This family of identities can be seen as a multivariate generalization of Clausen's Formula. Interestingly, this paper's finding bridges Ernst Kummer's two independent lines of research, algebraic transformations for the Gauss' hypergeometric function and nodal surfaces of degree four in $mathbb{P}^3$.

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