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View SchemaRecurrence relations and applications for the Maclaurin coefficients of squared and cubic hypergeometric functions
| Authors | Zhong-Xuan Mao, Jing-Feng Tian |
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| ArXiv ID | 2601.09154vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09154 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
Abstract
In this paper, we present and prove that the coefficients $u_n$ and $v_n$ in the series expansions $F^2(a,b;c;z) = \sum_{n=0}^\infty u_n z^n$ and $F^3(a,b;c;z) = \sum_{n=0}^\infty v_n z^n$ ($a,b,c,z \in \mathbb{C}$ and $-c \notin \mathbb{N} \cup \{0\}$) satisfy second- and third-order linear recurrence relations, respectively, where $F(a,b;c;x)$ denotes the Gaussian hypergeometric function and $\mathbb{C}$ is the complex plane. Our results provide recurrence relations for the Maclaurin coefficients of the squares and cubes of several classical special functions in the complex domain, including zero-balanced Gauss hypergeometric functions, elliptic integrals, as well as classical orthogonal polynomials such as Chebyshev, Legendre, Gegenbauer, and Jacobi polynomials. As applications, we first establish the monotonicity of a function involving Gauss hypergeometric functions and then present a new proof of the well-known Clausen's formula.
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