{ "id": "1104.4736", "version": "v2", "published": "2011-04-25T15:22:12.000Z", "updated": "2011-06-14T09:22:05.000Z", "title": "On quotients and differences of hypergeometric functions", "authors": [ "Slavko Simić", "Matti Vuorinen" ], "comment": "10 pages", "categories": [ "math.CA" ], "abstract": "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