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Is the hypergeometric function ${}_1F_2(1;a,a+\frac12;-x^2)$ an elementary function? How about its positivity, monotonicity, and convexity in $x$?
Is the generalized hypergeometric function ${}_1F_2\bigl(1;a,a+\frac12;-x^2\bigr)$ for $a>-1$ and $x>0$ an elementary function?
How about the positivity, monotonicity, and convexity of the ...
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Where or what is the general formula for the $n$th derivative of the power-exponential function $x^x$?
It is well-known that the power-exponential function $x^x$ and its first few derivatives are often taught in calculus.
Does the general formula for the $n$th derivative of the power-exponential ...
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continued fraction for logarithmic integral
Does the logarithmic integral function $\operatorname{li}(x)$ have the continued fraction expansion
$$\operatorname{li}(x) = \cfrac{x}{\log x -1 -{}} \ \cfrac{1}{\log x -3 -{}} \ \cfrac{4}{\log x -...
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Analytic or holomorphic extension of the ellipse perimeter function
Let ${\mathbb{R}^2}^+=\{(x,y)\in \mathbb{R}^2\mid x>0, y>0\}$.
Let $P:{\mathbb{R}^2}^+\to \mathbb{R}$ be the function with $P(a,b)=$ $\text{The perimeter of ellipse}\;\; \frac{x^2}{a^2}+\frac{y^...
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Bringing a Heun equation into canonical form
It is a well known fact that any second order Fuchsian differential equation on the complex plane $$u''(x) + p(x)u'(x) + q(x)u(x)=0$$ with exactly $4$ regular singular points may be suitably ...
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Nekrasov Partition function and the leading term of Prepotential
I've got a pretty basic question from the paper SEIBERG-WITTEN THEORY
AND RANDOM PARTITIONS, https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0306238.pdf.
In (4.25) the author expressed the partition function ...
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Understand the properties of this function
We define a function
$f(t):=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}e^{-nt}= \frac{1}{1-e^{-t}}= \frac{e^{\frac{t}{2}}}{e^{\frac{t}{2}}-e^{-\frac{t}{2}}}=\frac{2e^{\frac{t}{2}}}{\sinh\left(\frac{t}{2} \right)}$
observe ...
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