Table of Integrals, Series, and Products, 8th Edition

9.2 Confluent Hypergeometric Functions

9.20 Introduction

9.201¹⁰ A confluent hypergeometric function is obtained by taking the limit as c→∞ in the solution of Riemann's differential equation

$u=P\left\{\begin{array}{ccc}0& \infty \hfill & c\hfill \\ \frac{1}{2}+\mu & -c\hfill & c-\lambda \hfill & z\hfill \\ \frac{1}{2}-\mu & 0\hfill & \lambda \hfill \end{array}\right\}$

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9.202 The equation obtained by means of this limiting process is of the form

1. 

$\frac{{\text{d}}^{2}u}{\text{d}{z}^2}+\frac{\text{d}u}{\text{d}z}+\left(\frac{\lambda }{z}+\frac{\frac{1}{4}-{\mu }^2}{z^2}\right)u=0$

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Equation 9.202 1 has the following two linearly independent solutions:

2. 

$z^{{\frac{1}{2}}^{}+{\mu }_e-z}\mathrm{\Phi }\left(\frac{1}{2}+\mu -\lambda ,2\mu +1;z\right)$

3. 

$z^{}$