Fox H-function
In mathematics, the Fox H-function H(x) is a generalization of the Meijer G-function introduced by Charles Fox (1961). It is defined by a Mellin–Barnes integral
![H_{p,q}^{\,m,n} \!\left[ z \left| \begin{matrix}
( a_1 , A_1 ) & ( a_2 , A_2 ) & \ldots & ( a_p , A_p ) \\
( b_1 , B_1 ) & ( b_2 , B_2 ) & \ldots & ( b_q , B_q ) \end{matrix} \right. \right]
= \frac{1}{2\pi i}\int_L
\frac
{(\prod_{j=1}^m\Gamma(b_j+B_js))(\prod_{j=1}^n\Gamma(1-a_j-A_js))}
{(\prod_{j=m+1}^q\Gamma(1-b_j-B_js))(\prod_{j=n+1}^p\Gamma(a_j+A_js))}
z^{-s} \, ds](../I/m/d003ac544ffdc9cd7de0ac5bd2e1423e.png)
where L is a certain contour separating the poles of the two factors in the numerator.
For a further generalization of this function, useful in Physics and Statistics, see Rathie (1997).
The special case for which the Fox H-function reduces to the Meijer G-function is Aj = Bk = C, C > 0 for j = 1...p and k = 1...q (Srivastava 1984, p. 50):
![H_{p,q}^{\,m,n} \!\left[ z \left| \begin{matrix}
( a_1 , C ) & ( a_2 , C ) & \ldots & ( a_p , C ) \\
( b_1 , C ) & ( b_2 , C ) & \ldots & ( b_q , C ) \end{matrix} \right. \right]
= \frac{1}{C}
G_{p,q}^{\,m,n} \!\left( \left. \begin{matrix} a_1, \dots, a_p \\ b_1, \dots, b_q \end{matrix} \; \right| \, z^{1/C} \right).](../I/m/3b116dff6d00adc746a4cbf9ae12bb1e.png)
References
- Fox, Charles (1961), "The G and H functions as symmetrical Fourier kernels", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 98: 395–429, ISSN 0002-9947, JSTOR 1993339, MR 0131578
- Mathai, A. M.; Saxena, Ram Kishore (1978), The H-function with applications in statistics and other disciplines, Halsted Press [John Wiley & Sons], New York-London-Sidney, ISBN 978-0-470-26380-8, MR 513025
- Mathai, A. M.; Saxena, Ram Kishore; Haubold, Hans J. (2010), The H-function, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-1-4419-0915-2, MR 2562766
- Rathie, Arjun K. (1997), "A new generalization of generalized hypergeometric function", Le Matematiche LII: 297–310.
- Srivastava, H. M.; Gupta, K. C.; Goyal, S. P. (1982), The H-functions of one and two variables, New Delhi: South Asian Publishers Pvt. Ltd., MR 691138
- Srivastava, H. M.; Manocha, H. L. (1984). A treatise on generating functions. ISBN 0-470-20010-3.