Basic Hypergeometric Series

Significant revision of classic reference in special functions.

George Gasper (Author), Mizan Rahman (Author)

9780521833578, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 4 October 2004

456 pages, 3 b/w illus. 296 exercises
24 x 16.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.776 kg

'… a very modern, self-contained, comprehensive and successful monograph, interesting and useful, for physicists as well as for mathematicians from various branches, who wish to learn about the subject.' European Mathematical Society Newsletter

This revised and expanded new edition will continue to meet the needs for an authoritative, up-to-date, self contained, and comprehensive account of the rapidly growing field of basic hypergeometric series, or q-series. Simplicity, clarity, deductive proofs, thoughtfully designed exercises, and useful appendices are among its strengths. The first five chapters cover basic hypergeometric series and integrals, whilst the next five are devoted to applications in various areas including Askey-Wilson integrals and orthogonal polynomials, partitions in number theory, multiple series, orthogonal polynomials in several variables, and generating functions. Chapters 9-11 are new for the second edition, the final chapter containing a simplified version of the main elements of the theta and elliptic hypergeometric series as a natural extension of the single-base q-series. Some sections and exercises have been added to reflect recent developments, and the Bibliography has been revised to maintain its comprehensiveness.

Foreword
Preface
1. Basic hypergeometric series
2. Summation, transformation, and expansion formulas
3. Additional summation, transformation, and expansion formulas
4. Basic contour integrals
5. Bilateral basic hypergeometric series
6. The Askey-Wilson q-beta integral and some associated formulas
7. Applications to orthogonal polynomials
8. Further applications
9. Linear and bilinear generating functions for basic orthogonal polynomials
10. q-series in two or more variables
11. Elliptic, modular, and theta hypergeometric series
Appendices
References
Author index
Subject index
Symbol index.

Subject Areas: Calculus & mathematical analysis [PBK], Algebra [PBF]