Vol. 11, No. 4, 2018

Download this article
Download this article For screen
For printing
Recent Issues

Volume 17
Issue 5, 723–899
Issue 4, 543–722
Issue 3, 363–541
Issue 2, 183–362
Issue 1, 1–182

Volume 16, 5 issues

Volume 15, 5 issues

Volume 14, 5 issues

Volume 13, 5 issues

Volume 12, 8 issues

Volume 11, 5 issues

Volume 10, 5 issues

Volume 9, 5 issues

Volume 8, 5 issues

Volume 7, 6 issues

Volume 6, 4 issues

Volume 5, 4 issues

Volume 4, 4 issues

Volume 3, 4 issues

Volume 2, 5 issues

Volume 1, 2 issues

The Journal
About the journal
Ethics and policies
Peer-review process
 
Submission guidelines
Submission form
Editorial board
Editors' interests
 
Subscriptions
 
ISSN 1944-4184 (online)
ISSN 1944-4176 (print)
 
Author index
To appear
 
Other MSP journals
Interpolation on Gauss hypergeometric functions with an application

Hina Manoj Arora and Swadesh Kumar Sahoo

Vol. 11 (2018), No. 4, 625–641
Abstract

We use some standard numerical techniques to approximate the hypergeometric function

2F1[a,b;c;x] = 1 + ab c x + a(a + 1)b(b + 1) c(c + 1) x2 2! +

for a range of parameter triples (a,b,c) on the interval 0 < x < 1. Some of the familiar hypergeometric functional identities and asymptotic behavior of the hypergeometric function at x = 1 play crucial roles in deriving the formula for such approximations. We also focus on error analysis of the numerical approximations leading to monotone properties of quotients of gamma functions in parameter triples (a,b,c). Finally, an application to continued fractions of Gauss is discussed followed by concluding remarks consisting of recent works on related problems.

Keywords
interpolation, hypergeometric function, gamma function, error estimate
Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 65D05
Secondary: 33B15, 33B20, 33C05, 33F05
Milestones
Received: 21 November 2016
Revised: 7 July 2017
Accepted: 21 July 2017
Published: 15 January 2018

Communicated by Kenneth S. Berenhaut
Authors
Hina Manoj Arora
Discipline of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
Indore
India hina.arora@stonybrook.eduDepartment of Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY
United States
Swadesh Kumar Sahoo
Discipline of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology
Indore
India