In mathematics, an elliptic hypergeometric series is a series Σc_n such that the ratio c_n/c_n−1 is an elliptic function of n, analogous to generalized hypergeometric series where the ratio is a rational function of n, and basic hypergeometric series where the ratio is a periodic function of the complex number n. They were introduced by Date-Jimbo-Kuniba-Miwa-Okado (1987) and Frenkel & Turaev (1997) in their study of elliptic 6-j symbols.

For surveys of elliptic hypergeometric series see Gasper & Rahman (2004), Spiridonov (2008) or Rosengren (2016).

Definitions

The q-Pochhammer symbol is defined by

${\displaystyle \displaystyle (a;q)_{n}=\prod _{k=0}^{n-1}(1-aq^{k})=(1-a)(1-aq)(1-aq^{2})\cdots (1-aq^{n-1}).}$

${\displaystyle \displaystyle (a_{1},a_{2},\ldots ,a_{m};q)_{n}=(a_{1};q)_{n}(a_{2};q)_{n}\ldots (a_{m};q)_{n}.}$

The modified Jacobi theta function with argument x and nome p is defined by

${\displaystyle \displaystyle \theta (x;p)=(x,p/x;p)_{\infty ))$

${\displaystyle \displaystyle \theta (x_{1},...,x_{m};p)=\theta (x_{1};p)...\theta (x_{m};p)}$

The elliptic shifted factorial is defined by

${\displaystyle \displaystyle (a;q,p)_{n}=\theta (a;p)\theta (aq;p)...\theta (aq^{n-1};p)}$

${\displaystyle \displaystyle (a_{1},...,a_{m};q,p)_{n}=(a_{1};q,p)_{n}\cdots (a_{m};q,p)_{n))$

The theta hypergeometric series _r+1E_r is defined by

${\displaystyle \displaystyle {}_{r+1}E_{r}(a_{1},...a_{r+1};b_{1},...,b_{r};q,p;z)=\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {(a_{1},...,a_{r+1};q;p)_{n)){(q,b_{1},...,b_{r};q,p)_{n))}z^{n))$

The very well poised theta hypergeometric series _r+1V_r is defined by

${\displaystyle \displaystyle {}_{r+1}V_{r}(a_{1};a_{6},a_{7},...a_{r+1};q,p;z)=\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {\theta (a_{1}q^{2n};p)}{\theta (a_{1};p))){\frac {(a_{1},a_{6},a_{7},...,a_{r+1};q;p)_{n)){(q,a_{1}q/a_{6},a_{1}q/a_{7},...,a_{1}q/a_{r+1};q,p)_{n))}(qz)^{n))$

The bilateral theta hypergeometric series _rG_r is defined by

${\displaystyle \displaystyle {}_{r}G_{r}(a_{1},...a_{r};b_{1},...,b_{r};q,p;z)=\sum _{n=-\infty }^{\infty }{\frac {(a_{1},...,a_{r};q;p)_{n)){(b_{1},...,b_{r};q,p)_{n))}z^{n))$

Definitions of additive elliptic hypergeometric series

The elliptic numbers are defined by

${\displaystyle [a;\sigma ,\tau ]={\frac {\theta _{1}(\pi \sigma a,e^{\pi i\tau })}{\theta _{1}(\pi \sigma ,e^{\pi i\tau })))}$

where the Jacobi theta function is defined by

${\displaystyle \theta _{1}(x,q)=\sum _{n=-\infty }^{\infty }(-1)^{n}q^{(n+1/2)^{2))e^{(2n+1)ix))$

The additive elliptic shifted factorials are defined by

• ${\displaystyle [a;\sigma ,\tau ]_{n}=[a;\sigma ,\tau ][a+1;\sigma ,\tau ]...[a+n-1;\sigma ,\tau ]}$
• ${\displaystyle [a_{1},...,a_{m};\sigma ,\tau ]=[a_{1};\sigma ,\tau ]...[a_{m};\sigma ,\tau ]}$

The additive theta hypergeometric series _r+1e_r is defined by

${\displaystyle \displaystyle {}_{r+1}e_{r}(a_{1},...a_{r+1};b_{1},...,b_{r};\sigma ,\tau ;z)=\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {[a_{1},...,a_{r+1};\sigma ;\tau ]_{n)){[1,b_{1},...,b_{r};\sigma ,\tau ]_{n))}z^{n))$

The additive very well poised theta hypergeometric series _r+1v_r is defined by

${\displaystyle \displaystyle {}_{r+1}v_{r}(a_{1};a_{6},...a_{r+1};\sigma ,\tau ;z)=\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {[a_{1}+2n;\sigma ,\tau ]}{[a_{1};\sigma ,\tau ])){\frac {[a_{1},a_{6},...,a_{r+1};\sigma ,\tau ]_{n)){[1,1+a_{1}-a_{6},...,1+a_{1}-a_{r+1};\sigma ,\tau ]_{n))}z^{n))$