### 15.8 Hypergeometric Functions

The Hypergeometric Functions are defined in Abramowitz and Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical Functions, Chapters 13 and 15.

Maxima has very limited knowledge of these functions. They can be returned from function `hgfred`.

Function: %m [k,u] (z)

  Whittaker M function `M[k,u](z) = exp(-z/2)*z^(1/2+u)*M(1/2+u-k,1+2*u,z)`. (A&S 13.1.32)

  ·Special functions

Function: %w [k,u] (z)

  Whittaker W function. (A&S 13.1.33)

  ·Special functions

Function: %f [p,q] ([a],[b],z)

  The pFq(a1,a2,..ap;b1,b2,..bq;z) hypergeometric function, where `a` a list of length `p` and `b` a list of length `q`.

  ·Bessel functions ·Special functions

Function: hypergeometric ([a1, ..., ap],[b1, ... ,bq], x)

  The hypergeometric function. Unlike Maxima’s `%f` hypergeometric function, the function `hypergeometric` is a simplifying function; also, `hypergeometric` supports complex double and big floating point evaluation. For the Gauss hypergeometric function, that is p = 2 and q = 1, floating point evaluation outside the unit circle is supported, but in general, it is not supported.

  When the option variable `expand_hypergeometric` is true (default is false) and one of the arguments `a1` through `ap` is a negative integer (a polynomial case), `hypergeometric` returns an expanded polynomial.

  Examples:

      (%i1)  hypergeometric([],[],x);
      (%o1) %e^x

  Polynomial cases automatically expand when `expand_hypergeometric` is true:

      (%i2) hypergeometric([-3],[7],x);
      (%o2) hypergeometric([-3],[7],x)

      (%i3) hypergeometric([-3],[7],x), expand_hypergeometric : true;
      (%o3) -x^3/504+3*x^2/56-3*x/7+1

  Both double float and big float evaluation is supported:

      (%i4) hypergeometric([5.1],[7.1 + %i],0.42);
      (%o4)       1.346250786375334 - 0.0559061414208204 %i
      (%i5) hypergeometric([5,6],[8], 5.7 - %i);
      (%o5)     .007375824009774946 - .001049813688578674 %i
      (%i6) hypergeometric([5,6],[8], 5.7b0 - %i), fpprec : 30;
      (%o6) 7.37582400977494674506442010824b-3
                                - 1.04981368857867315858055393376b-3 %i