arXiv · 1509.06465
Some new properties of Confluent Hypergeometric Functions
Abstract
The confluent hypergeometric functions (the Kummer functions) defined by ${}_{1}F_{1}(α;γ;z):=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{(α)_{n}}{n!(γ)_{n}}z^{n}\ (γ\neq 0,-1,-2,\cdots)$, which are of many properties and great applications in statistics, mathematical physics, engineering and so on, have been given. In this paper, we investigate some new properties of ${}_{1}F_{1}(α;γ;z)$ from the perspective of value distribution theory. Specifically, two different growth orders are obtained for $α\in \mathbb{Z}_{\leq 0}$ and $α\not\in \mathbb{Z}_{\leq 0}$, which are corresponding to the reduced case and non-degenerated case of ${}_{1}F_{1}(α;γ;z)$. Moreover, we get an asymptotic estimation of characteristic function $T(r,{}_{1}F_{1}(α;γ;z))$ and a more precise result of $m\left(r, \frac{{}_{1}F_{1}'(α;γ;z)}{{}_{1}F_{1}(α;γ;z)}\right)$, compared with the Logarithmic Derivative Lemma. Besides, the distribution of zeros of the confluent hypergeometric functions is discussed. Finally, we show how a confluent hypergeometric function and an entire function are uniquely determined by their $c$-values.
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Xu-Dan Luo, Wei-Chuan Lin. 2015-09-22. Some new properties of Confluent Hypergeometric Functions. https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06465
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