Asymptotics of a Gauss hypergeometric function with large parameters, IV: A uniform expansion

Abstract

We consider the uniform asymptotic expansion for the Gauss hypergeometric function \[F(a+ελ,m;c+λ;x),\qquad λ\to+\infty\] for $x<1$ and positive integer $m$ when the parameter $\epsilon >1$ and the constants $a$ and $c$ are supposed finite. When $m=1$, we employ the standard procedure of the method of steepest descents modified to deal with the situation when a saddle point is near a simple pole. It is shown that it is possible to give a closed-form expression for the coefficients in the resulting uniform expansion. The expansion when $m\ge 2$ is obtained by means of a recurrence relation. Numerical results illustrating the accuracy of the resulting expansion are given.

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