Meijer G-函數 是荷蘭數學家梅耶爾 引入的一種特殊函數 。它是廣義超幾何函數 的推廣,絕大多數的特殊函數都可以用 Meijer G -函數表示出來。
廣義超幾何函數有下列一般的積分表達式(參見相關小節 ):
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{\displaystyle \left(\prod _{k=1}^{p}\Gamma (a_{k})\right/\left.\prod _{k=1}^{q}\Gamma (b_{k})\right)\,{}_{p}F_{q}\left[{\begin{matrix}a_{1}&a_{2}&\ldots &a_{p}\\b_{1}&b_{2}&\ldots &b_{q}\end{matrix}};z\right]={\frac {1}{2\pi i}}\int _{C}\left(\prod _{k=1}^{p}\Gamma (a_{k}+s)\right/\left.\prod _{k=1}^{q}\Gamma (b_{k}+s)\right)\Gamma (-s)(-z)^{s}\mathrm {d} s}
其中積分路徑 C 視參數 p , q 的相對大小而定。上面的積分表達式具有 Mellin 逆變換 的形式。
Meijer-G 函數是上面積分表達式的一個推廣,它的定義為:
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{\displaystyle G_{p,q}^{m,n}\left[{\begin{matrix}a_{1}&a_{2}&\ldots &a_{p}\\b_{1}&b_{2}&\ldots &b_{q}\end{matrix}};z\right]={\frac {1}{2\pi i}}\int _{C}z^{s}\left.\left(\prod _{k=1}^{n}\Gamma (1-a_{k}+s)\right/\left.\prod _{k=m+1}^{q}\Gamma (1-b_{k}+s)\right)\right/\left(\prod _{k=n+1}^{p}\Gamma (a_{k}-s)\right/\left.\prod _{k=1}^{m}\Gamma (b_{k}-s)\right)\mathrm {d} s}
其中積分路徑 C 視參數的相對大小而定[ 注 1] 。但是,為了保證至少一條積分路徑有定義,要求
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{\displaystyle a_{k}-b_{l}\notin \mathbb {Z} ^{+},\quad \forall k=1,2,\dots ,n;l=1,2,\dots ,m}
在書寫 Meijer-G 函數時要注意,上標中的第一個參數和下標中的第二個參數對應的是 b k ,而上標中的第二個參數和下標中的第一個參數對應的是 a k 。
對比上述兩式可以得到廣義超幾何函數和 Meijer-G 函數的關係:
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{\displaystyle {\begin{array}{cl}&{\frac {\prod _{k=1}^{p}\Gamma (a_{k})}{\prod _{k=1}^{q}\Gamma (b_{k})}}\,{}_{p}F_{q}\left[{\begin{matrix}a_{1}&a_{2}&\ldots &a_{p}\\b_{1}&b_{2}&\ldots &b_{q}\end{matrix}};z\right]\\=&G_{p,q+1}^{1,p}\left[{\begin{matrix}1-a_{1}&1-a_{2}&\ldots &1-a_{p}\\0&1-b_{1}&\ldots &1-b_{q}\end{matrix}};-z\right]\\=&G_{q+1,p}^{p,1}\left[{\begin{matrix}1&b_{1}&\ldots &b_{q}\\a_{1}&a_{2}&\ldots &a_{p}\end{matrix}};-{\frac {1}{z}}\right]\end{array}}}
和廣義超幾何函數一樣,如果上下兩個向量組在合適的位置有相同的元素,則 Meijer-G 函數可以降階,此處不再贅述。
Meijer-G 函數的導函數 具有下列性質:
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{\displaystyle z^{h}{\frac {\mathrm {d} ^{h}}{\mathrm {d} z^{h}}}\;G_{p,q}^{\,m,n}\!\left(\left.{\begin{matrix}\mathbf {a_{p}} \\\mathbf {b_{q}} \end{matrix}}\;\right|\,z\right)=G_{p+1,\,q+1}^{\,m,\,n+1}\!\left(\left.{\begin{matrix}0,\mathbf {a_{p}} \\\mathbf {b_{q}} ,h\end{matrix}}\;\right|\,z\right)=(-1)^{h}\;G_{p+1,\,q+1}^{\,m+1,\,n}\!\left(\left.{\begin{matrix}\mathbf {a_{p}} ,0\\h,\mathbf {b_{q}} \end{matrix}}\;\right|\,z\right),}
注意 h 可以取任意整數值,取負數時表示不定積分 。
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上面的式子都可以直接由定義得到。
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由上面一般關係式 一節的討論知 Meijer-G 函數滿足下列微分方程,它與廣義超幾何函數滿足的微分方程形式上很類似。
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當 p =q 時兩種取法都可以。
從 m , n 的取值上就可以看到它們跟廣義超幾何函數有直接的聯繫。事實上的確如此,以第一種情況為例,
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等號右邊的 Meijer-G 函數顯然就是廣義超幾何函數。
因為廣義超幾何函數是 Meijer-G 函數的特殊情形,故所有可以用廣義超幾何函數表示的特殊函數都可以用 Meijer-G 函數表示,但是,在個別情況下,用 Meijer-G 函數有更簡單的表示式,例子如諾依曼函數 ,它可以用超幾何函數0 F1 表示,但表示式僅僅是將(第一類)貝索函數的超幾何函數表示式代入其定義式中,因此含有兩個超幾何函數。而用 Meijer-G 函數就可以直接表示為:
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另外一個例子是不完全伽瑪函數對參變量的偏導數,它無法用廣義超幾何函數表出,但可以用 Meijer-G 函數表出:
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事實上,不完全伽瑪函數對參變量的高階偏導數也可以用 Meijer-G 函數表出,詳見不完全Γ函數 一文。
如同廣義超幾何函數和Kampé de Fériet函數(雙變量的廣義超幾何函數)的關係那樣,Meijer G-函數也可以被推廣到兩個變量的情況:
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{\displaystyle G_{p,q,u_{1},v_{1},u_{2},v_{2}}^{m,n,s_{1},t_{1},s_{2},t_{2}}\left[{\begin{array}{lll}a_{1},\dots ,a_{p};c_{1,1},\dots ,c_{1,u_{1}};c_{2,1},\dots ,c_{2,u_{2}};\\b_{1},\dots ,b_{q};d_{1,1},\dots ,d_{1,v_{1}};d_{2,1},\dots ,d_{2,v_{2}};\end{array}}\ z,w\right]=-{\frac {1}{4\pi ^{2}}}\int _{\mathcal {L}}\int _{\mathcal {L'}}{\frac {\prod _{k=1}^{m}\Gamma (b_{k}+\sigma +\tau )\prod _{k=1}^{n}\Gamma (1-a_{k}-\sigma -\tau )}{\prod _{k=n+1}^{p}\Gamma (a_{k}+\sigma +\tau )\prod _{k=m+1}^{q}\Gamma (1-a_{k}-\sigma -\tau )}}{\frac {\prod _{k=1}^{s_{1}}\Gamma (d_{1,k}+\sigma )\prod _{k=1}^{t_{1}}\Gamma (1-c_{1,k}-\sigma )}{\prod _{k=t_{1}+1}^{u_{1}}\Gamma (c_{1,k}+\sigma )\prod _{k=s_{1}+1}^{v_{1}}\Gamma (1-d_{1,k}-\sigma )}}{\frac {\prod _{k=1}^{s_{2}}\Gamma (d_{2,k}+\tau )\prod _{k=1}^{t_{2}}\Gamma (1-c_{2,k}-\tau )}{\prod _{k=t_{2}+1}^{u_{2}}\Gamma (c_{2,k}+\tau )\prod _{k=s_{2}+1}^{v_{2}}\Gamma (1-d_{2,k}-\tau )}}z^{-\sigma }w^{-\tau }d\sigma d\tau /;m,n,s_{1},t_{1},s_{2},t_{2},p,q,u_{1},v_{1},u_{2},v_{2}\in \mathbb {N} ,m\leq q,n\leq p,s_{1}\leq v_{1},t_{1}\leq u_{1},s_{2}\leq v_{2},t_{2}\leq u_{2}}
^ 具體可參見DLMF上的圖 (頁面存檔備份 ,存於網際網路檔案館 )
Askey, R. A.; Daalhuis, Adri B. Olde, Generalized Hypergeometric Functions and Meijer G -Function , Olver, Frank W. J. ; Lozier, Daniel M.; Boisvert, Ronald F.; Clark, Charles W. (編), NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions , Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0521192255 , MR 2723248
Beals, Richard; Szmigielski, Jacek. Meijer G-Functions: A Gentle Introduction, (PDF) . Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 2013, 60 (7) [2014-09-06 ] . (原始內容存檔 (PDF) 於2021-01-26).
Luke, Yudell L. The Special Functions and Their Approximations, Vol. I. New York: Academic Press. 1969. ISBN 0-12-459901-X . (see Chapter V, "The Generalized Hypergeometric Function and the G-Function", p. 136)
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