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On the Reducibility of Appell's Function F4

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

H. M. Srivastava*
Affiliation:
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
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Put

1

For the Appell function F4 defined by [3, p. 224]

2

Saxena [5, p. 216] proved a reduction formula in the form

3

where

It may be of interest to point out that formula (3) is not correct. Indeed we first establish the following general result.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1973

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