Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Qassim university, Buraidah 51452, Saudi Arabia
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Abstract
A case of a Pfaff transformation is given by the following:
In this paper, when is a negative integer, we define the Gaussian hypergeometric series as follows:
which is well-defined, as it is a terminating hypergeometric series since the summation is only for ; additionally, the fact that is a negative integer does not make any harm. With this definition, if we take and , then the left-hand side is a terminating hypergeometric series equal to , while the right-hand side is also a terminating hypergeometric series, but has as the pole of multiplicity given by . More generally, with the definition above, we prove that this case of the Pfaff transformation does not hold for any positive integer and for any negative integer . Additionally, an analysis aims to solve this situation. In fact, we give a new expression depending on , and such that
for any positive integer and for any negative integer . As a very interesting consequence we present a corollary from the boundary conditions, thereby providing the following:
(1) an expansion of as a sum of two terminating hypergeometric series (with symmetric values) with the coefficients given in the integer sequence (these coefficients can be found in Pascal's triangle as an inclined column);
(2) an expansion of as a sum of two terminating hypergeometric series (with symmetric values) with the coefficients given in the integer sequence .
ATTIA MJ. Resolution of an isolated case of Pfaff hypergeometric transformation and new application of integer sequences. AIMS Mathematics, 2025, 10(9): 20140-20156. https://doi.org/10.3934/math.2025900
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