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Special values of the hypergeometric series

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

G. S. Joyce  and
I. J. Zucker
G. S. Joyce
Affiliation:
Wheatstone Physics Laboratory, King's College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
I. J. Zucker
Affiliation:
Wheatstone Physics Laboratory, King's College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS
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Recently, several authors [1, 3, 9] have investigated the algebraic and transcendental values of the hypergeometric series

for rational parameters a, b, c and algebraic arguments z. This work has led to some interesting new identities such as

and

where Γ(x) denotes the gamma function.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 109 , Issue 2 , March 1991 , pp. 257 - 261
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1991

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