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On a summation formula for the Appell function F2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

H. M. Srivastava
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Jodhpur University, India

Extract

1. In the course of a systematic analysis of certain problems in quantum mechanics it has been observed that their exact solutions can be expressed in terms of the Appell function F2 defined by means of (see e.g. (8), p. 211)

where, as usual,

and for convergence of the double series,

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1967

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