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1. Basic hypergeometric functions A standard reference for this section is the book by Gasper and Rahman [15]. In particular, the present section is quite parallel to their introductory Chapter 1. See also the useful compendia of formulas in the Appendices to that book. The foreword to [15] by R. Askey gives a succinct historical introduction to the subject. For first reading on the subject I can also recommend Andrews [2].
1.1. Preliminaries. We start with briefly recalling the definition of the general hyper- geometric series (see Erd´elyi e.a. [13, Ch. 4] or Bailey [11, Ch. 2]). For a ∈ C the shifted factorial or Pochhammer symbol is defined by (a)0 := 1 and
(a)k := a (a + 1) ... (a + k − 1), k =1, 2,....
The general hypergeometric series is defined by
∞ a1,...,ar (a1)k ... (ar)k k rFs ; z := z . (1.1) b1,...,bs (b1)k ... (bs)k k! Xk=0
Here r, s ∈ Z+ and the upper parameters a1,...,ar, the lower parameters b1,...,bs and the argument z are in C. However, in order to avoid zeros in the denominator, we require that b1,...,bs ∈{/ 0, −1, −2,...}. If, for some i =1,...,r, ai is a non-positive integer then the series (1.1) is terminating. Otherwise, we have an infinite power series with radius of convergence equal to 0, 1 or ∞ according to whether r −s−1 > 0,=0or < 0, respectively. On the right hand side of (1.1) we have that
(k + 1)th term (k + a ) ... (k + a ) z = 1 r (1.2) kth term (k + b1) ... (k + bs)(k + 1)
is rational in k. Conversely, any rational function in k can be written in the form of the ∞ right hand side of (1.2). Hence, any series k=0 ck with c0 = 1 and ck+1/ck rational in k is of the form of a hypergeometric series (1.1). P The cases 0F0 and 1F0 are elementary: exponential resp. binomial series. The case 2F1 is the familiar Gaussian hypergeometric series, cf. [13, Ch. 2]. We next give the definition of basic hypergeometric series. For a, q ∈ C define the q-shifted factorial by (a; q)0 := 1 and
k−1 (a; q)k := (1 − a)(1 − aq) ... (1 − aq ), k =1, 2,....
For |q| < 1 put ∞ k (a; q)∞ := (1 − aq ). kY=0 We also write
(a1,a2,...,ar; q)k := (a1; q)k (a2; q)k ... (ar; q)k , k =0, 1, 2,... or ∞. –3–
Then a basic hypergeometric series or q-hypergeometric series is defined by
a ,...,a φ 1 r ; q, z = φ (a ,...,a ; b ,...,b ; q, z) r s b ,...,b r s 1 r 1 s 1 s ∞ (a1,...,ar; q)k k k(k−1)/2 1+s−r k := (−1) q z , r,s ∈ Z+. (1.3) (b1,...,bs, q; q)k k=0 X On the right hand side of (1.3) we have that
k k k 1+s−r (k + 1)th term (1 − a1q ) ... (1 − arq )(−q ) z = k k k+1 (1.4) kth term (1 − b1q ) ... (1 − bsq )(1 − q )
is rational in qk. Conversely, any rational function in qk can be written in the form of the ∞ k right hand side of (1.4). Hence, any series k=0 ck with c0 = 1 and ck+1/ck rational in q is of the form of a q-hypergeometric series (1.3). This characterization is one explanation why we allow q raised to a power quadraticP in k in (1.3). Because of the easily verified relation
−1 k k −k(k−1)/2 −1 (a; q )k =(−1) a q (a ; q)k ,
any series (1.3) can be transformed into a series with base q−1. Hence, it is sufficient to study series (1.3) with |q| ≤ 1. The tricky case |q| = 1 has not yet been studied much and will be ignored by us. Therefore we may assume that |q| < 1. In fact, for convenience we will always assume that 0 < q < 1, unless it is otherwise stated. In order to have a well-defined series (1.3), we require that
−1 −2 b1,...,bs 6=1, q , q ,....
−1 −2 The series (1.3) will terminate iff, for some i = 1,...,r, we have ai ∈ {1, q , q ,...}. −n If ai = q (n = 0, 1, 2,...) then all terms in the series with k>n will vanish. In the non-vanishing case, the convergence behaviour of (1.3) can be read off from (1.4) by use of the ratio test. We conclude:
∞ if rs + 1.
We can view the q-shifted factorial as a q-analogue of the shifted factorial by the limit formula a (q ; q)k lim =(a)k := a(a + 1) ... (a + k − 1). q→1 (1 − q)k
Hence rφs is a q-analogue of rFs by the formal (termwise) limit
a1 ar q ,...,q 1+s−r a1,...,ar lim rφs ; q, (q − 1) z = rFs ; z . (1.5) q↑1 qb1 ,...,qbs b ,...,b 1 s –4–
However, we get many other q-analogues of rFs by adding upper or lower parameters to the left hand side of (1.5) which are equal to 0 or which depend on q in such a way that they tend to a limit 6=1as q ↑ 1. Note that the notation (1.3) has the drawback that some rescaling is necessary before we can take limits for q → 1. On the other hand, parameters can be put equal to zero without problem in (1.3), which would not be the case if we worked with a1,...,ar, b1,...,bs as in (1.5). In general, q-hypergeometric series can be studied in their own right, without much consideration for the q = 1 limit case. This philosophy is often (but not always) reflected in the notation generally in use. It is well known that the confluent 1F1 hypergeometric function can be obtained from the Gaussian 2F1 hypergeometric function by a limit process called confluence. A similar phenomenon occurs for q-series. Formally, by taking termwise limits we have
a1,...,ar z a1,...,ar−1 lim rφs ; q, = r−1φs ; q, z . (1.6) ar →∞ b ,...,b a b ,...,b 1 s r 1 s 1+s−r In particular, this explains the particular choice of the factor (−1)k qk(k−1)/2 in (1.3). If r = s + 1 this factor is lacking and for r