HeunB - The Heun Biconfluent function
HeunBPrime - The derivative of the Heun Biconfluent function
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Description
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The HeunB function is the solution of the Heun Biconfluent equation. Following the first reference (at the end), the equation and the conditions at the origin satisfied by HeunB are
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FunctionAdvisor(definition, HeunB);
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DEtools[hyperode]( hypergeom([a],[c],z), y(z) ) = 0;
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So besides the standard hypergeometric solution of this equation, a solution expressed in terms of HeunB functions can also be constructed, and in this way HeunB contains as particular cases all the hypergeometric functions of the 1F1 class. Some of these specializations are listed at the end of the Examples section.
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Examples
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Heun's Biconfluent equation,
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can be transformed into another version of itself, that is, an equation with one regular and one irregular singularity respectively located at 0 and through transformations of the form
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where are new variables, and . Under this transformation, the HeunB parameters transform according to -> , -> , -> and -> . These transformations form a group and imply on a number of identities, among which you have
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A relation between HeunB and the confluent 1F1 hypergeometric function is
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When, in HeunB(,,,,z), , with a positive integer, the th coefficient in the series expansion is a polynomial in of order . If is a root of that polynomial, that th coefficient and the subsequent ones are zero. The series then truncates and HeunB reduces to a polynomial. For example, this is the necessary condition for a polynomial form
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Considering the first non-trivial case, for , the function is
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So the coefficient of in the series expansion is
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solving for , requesting from solve to return using RootOf, you have
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substituting in we have
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When the function admits a polynomial form, as is the case of by construction, to obtain the actual polynomial of degree (in this case ) use
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References
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Decarreau, A.; Dumont-Lepage, M.C.; Maroni, P.; Robert, A.; and Ronveaux, A. "Formes Canoniques de Equations confluentes de l'equation de Heun." Annales de la Societe Scientifique de Bruxelles. Vol. 92 I-II, (1978): 53-78.
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Ronveaux, A. ed. Heun's Differential Equations. Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Slavyanov, S.Y., and Lay, W. Special Functions, A Unified Theory Based on Singularities. Oxford Mathematical Monographs, 2000.
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