Titel
How can we escape Thomae's relations?
Autor*in
T Rivoal
University of Caen
Abstract
In 1879, Thomae discussed the relations between two generic hypergeometric 3F2-series with argument 1. It is well-known since then that, in combination with the trivial ones which come from permutations of the parameters of the hypergeometric series, Thomae had found a set of 120 relations. More recently, Rhin and Viola asked the following question (in a different, but equivalent language of integrals): If there exists a linear dependence relation over Q between two convergent 3F 2-series with argument 1, with integral parameters, and whose values are irrational numbers, is this relation a specialisation of one of the 120 Thomae relations? A few years later, Sato answered this question in the negative, by giving six examples of relations which cannot be explained by Thomae's relations. We show that Sato's counter-examples can be naturally embedded into two families of infinitely many 3F2- relations, both parametrised by three independent parameters. Moreover, we find two more infinite families of the same nature. The families, which do not seem to have been recorded before, come from certain 3F 2-transformation formulae and contiguous relations. We also explain in detail the relationship between the integrals of Rhin and Viola and 3F2-series.
Stichwort
Contiguous relationsHypergeometric seriesIrrationality of zeta valuesMultiple integralsThomae transformations
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:243598
Erschienen in
Titel
Mathematical Society of Japan. Journal
Band
58
Ausgabe
1
Seitenanfang
183
Seitenende
210
Erscheinungsdatum
01.11.2006
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