On quotients and differences of hypergeometric functions

Slavko Simić, Matti Vuorinen

Published 2011-04-25, updated 2011-06-14Version 2

For Gaussian hypergeometric functions $F(x)= F(a,b;c;x),$ $a,b,c>0,$ we consider the quotient $ Q_F(x,y)= (F(x)+F(y))/F(z)$ and the difference $ D_F(x,y)= F(x)+F(y)-F(z)$ for $0<x,y<1$ with $z=x+y-xy \,.$ We give best possible bounds for both expressions under various hypotheses about the parameter triple $(a,b;c)\,.$