The purpose of the present paper is to give some characterizations for a Gaussian hypergeometric function to be in various subclasses of starlike and convex functions. We also consider an integral operator related to the hypergeometric function.

We undertake a thorough investigation of the moments of Ramanujan’s alternative elliptic integrals and of related hypergeometric functions. Along the way we are able to give some surprising closed forms for Catalan-related constants and various new hypergeometric identities.

The objective of the present paper is to give some characterizations for a (Gaussian) hypergeometric function to be in various subclasses of starlike and convex functions. We also consider an integral operator related to the hypergeometric function.

Wilf and Zeilberger conjectured in 1992 that a hypergeometric term is proper-hypergeometric if and only if it is holonomic. We prove a slightly modiied version of this conjecture in the case of several discrete variables.

We establish two binomial coefficient–generalized harmonic sum identities using the partial fraction decomposition method. These identities are a key ingredient in the proofs of numerous supercongruences. In particular, in other works of the author, they are used to establish modulo p (k > 1) congruences between truncated generalized hypergeometric series, and a function which extends Greene’s ...

in a domain R+3 ≡ {(x, y, z) : x > 0, y > 0, z > 0}. Here α, β, γ are constants, moreover 0 < 2α, 2β, 2γ < 1. Main result of this paper is a construction of eight fundamental solutions for above-given equation in an explicit form. They are expressed by Lauricella’s hypergeometric functions of three variables. Using expansion of Lauricella’s hypergeometric function by products of Gauss’s hyperge...

Nonpolynomial basic hypergeometric eigenfunctions of the Askey–Wilson second order difference operator are known to be expressible as very-well-poised 8φ7 series. In this paper we use this fact to derive various basic hypergeometric and theta function identities. We relate most of them to identities from the existing literature on basic hypergeometric series. This leads for example to a new der...

We describe the structure of all codimension-two lattice configurations A which admit a stable rational A-hypergeometric function, that is a rational function F all whose partial derivatives are non zero, and which is a solution of the A-hypergeometric system of partial differential equations defined by Gel’fand, Kapranov and Zelevinsky. We show, moreover, that all stable rational A-hypergeomet...

The fundamental set of solutions of the generalized hypergeometric differential equation in the neighborhood of unity has been built by Nørlund in 1955. The behavior of the generalized hypergeometric function in the neighborhood of unity has been described in the beginning of 1990s by Bühring, Srivastava and Saigo. In the first part of this paper we review their results rewriting them in terms ...

We find sufficient conditions for log-convexity and log-concavity for the functions of the forms a 7→ ∑ fk(a)kx , a 7→ ∑ fkΓ(a + k)x k and a 7→ ∑ fkx k/(a)k. The most useful examples of such functions are generalized hypergeometric functions. In particular, we generalize the Turán inequality for the confluent hypergeometric function recently proved by Barnard, Gordy and Richards and log-convexi...