Clausen's formula
In mathematics, Clausen's formula, found by Thomas Clausen (1828), expresses the square of a Gaussian hypergeometric series as a generalized hypergeometric series. It states
![{\displaystyle \;_{2}F_{1}\left[{\begin{matrix}a&b\\a+b+1/2\end{matrix}};x\right]^{2}=\;_{3}F_{2}\left[{\begin{matrix}2a&2b&a+b\\a+b+1/2&2a+2b\end{matrix}};x\right]}](../I/m/1ef3f808aeaeb371d8111d862a7c02000a5e13e8.svg)
In particular it gives conditions for a hypergeometric series to be positive. This can be used to prove several inequalities, such as the Askey–Gasper inequality used in the proof of de Branges's theorem.
References
- Andrews, George E.; Askey, Richard; Roy, Ranjan (1999), Special functions, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, 71, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-62321-6, MR 1688958
- Clausen, Thomas (1828), "Ueber die Fälle, wenn die Reihe von der Form y = 1 + ... etc. ein Quadrat von der Form z = 1 ... etc.hat", Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, 3
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