{ "id": "1904.03812", "version": "v1", "published": "2019-04-08T03:04:16.000Z", "updated": "2019-04-08T03:04:16.000Z", "title": "A canonical form of the hypergeometric equation and transformation formulas", "authors": [ "Noriyuki Otsubo" ], "comment": "18 pages", "categories": [ "math.CA", "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We give a new method to prove in a uniform and easy way various transformation formulas for Gauss' hypergeometric functions. The key is a certain canonical form of the hypergeometric differential equation. Analogy for $q$-hypergeometric functions is also studied.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2019-04-08T03:04:16.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "33C05", "33D15" ], "keywords": [ "transformation formulas", "canonical form", "hypergeometric equation", "hypergeometric functions" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 18, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }