嫪麗切拉函數 (Lauricella functions)是1893年意大利 數學家 Giuseppe Lauricella 首先研究的三元超幾何函數 。
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{\displaystyle F_{A}^{(3)}(a,b_{1},b_{2},b_{3},c_{1},c_{2},c_{3};x_{1},x_{2},x_{3})=\sum _{i_{1},i_{2},i_{3}=0}^{\infty }{\frac {(a)_{i_{1}+i_{2}+i_{3}}(b_{1})_{i_{1}}(b_{2})_{i_{2}}(b_{3})_{i_{3}}}{(c_{1})_{i_{1}}(c_{2})_{i_{2}}(c_{3})_{i_{3}}\,i_{1}!\,i_{2}!\,i_{3}!}}\,x_{1}^{i_{1}}x_{2}^{i_{2}}x_{3}^{i_{3}}}
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{\displaystyle F_{B}^{(3)}(a_{1},a_{2},a_{3},b_{1},b_{2},b_{3},c;x_{1},x_{2},x_{3})=\sum _{i_{1},i_{2},i_{3}=0}^{\infty }{\frac {(a_{1})_{i_{1}}(a_{2})_{i_{2}}(a_{3})_{i_{3}}(b_{1})_{i_{1}}(b_{2})_{i_{2}}(b_{3})_{i_{3}}}{(c)_{i_{1}+i_{2}+i_{3}}\,i_{1}!\,i_{2}!\,i_{3}!}}\,x_{1}^{i_{1}}x_{2}^{i_{2}}x_{3}^{i_{3}}}
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{\displaystyle F_{C}^{(3)}(a,b,c_{1},c_{2},c_{3};x_{1},x_{2},x_{3})=\sum _{i_{1},i_{2},i_{3}=0}^{\infty }{\frac {(a)_{i_{1}+i_{2}+i_{3}}(b)_{i_{1}+i_{2}+i_{3}}}{(c_{1})_{i_{1}}(c_{2})_{i_{2}}(c_{3})_{i_{3}}\,i_{1}!\,i_{2}!\,i_{3}!}}\,x_{1}^{i_{1}}x_{2}^{i_{2}}x_{3}^{i_{3}}}
其中|x 1 |½ + |x 2 |½ + |x 3 |½ < 1
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{\displaystyle F_{D}^{(3)}(a,b_{1},b_{2},b_{3},c;x_{1},x_{2},x_{3})=\sum _{i_{1},i_{2},i_{3}=0}^{\infty }{\frac {(a)_{i_{1}+i_{2}+i_{3}}(b_{1})_{i_{1}}(b_{2})_{i_{2}}(b_{3})_{i_{3}}}{(c)_{i_{1}+i_{2}+i_{3}}\,i_{1}!\,i_{2}!\,i_{3}!}}\,x_{1}^{i_{1}}x_{2}^{i_{2}}x_{3}^{i_{3}}}
其中 |x 1 | < 1, |x 2 | < 1, |x 3 | < 1.
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{\displaystyle (q)_{i}=q\,(q+1)\cdots (q+i-1)={\frac {\Gamma (q+i)}{\Gamma (q)}}~,}
通過解析延拓,可將 x 1 , x 2 , x 3 等變數擴展到其他數值.
Lauricella指出,另外還有十個三元超幾何函數: F E , F F , ..., F T (Saran 1954 ).
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{\displaystyle F_{A}^{(n)}\left(a;b_{1},\ldots ,b_{n};c_{1},\ldots ,c_{n};z_{1},\ldots ,z_{n}\right)=\sum _{k_{1}=0}^{\infty }\ldots \sum _{k_{n}=0}^{\infty }{\frac {(a)_{k_{1}+\ldots +k_{n}}\left(b_{1}\right)_{k_{1}}\ldots \left(b_{n}\right)_{k_{n}}}{\left(c_{1}\right)_{k_{1}}\ldots \left(c_{n}\right)_{k_{n}}}}{\frac {z_{1}^{k_{1}}\ldots z_{n}^{k_{n}}}{k_{1}!\ldots k_{n}!}};/\left|z_{1}\right|+\ldots +\left|z_{n}\right|<1}
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{\displaystyle F_{B}^{(n)}\left(a_{1},\ldots ,a_{n};b_{1},\ldots ,b_{n};c;z_{1},\ldots ,z_{n}\right)=\sum _{k_{1}=0}^{\infty }\ldots \sum _{k_{n}=0}^{\infty }{\frac {\left(a_{1}\right)_{k_{1}}\ldots \left(a_{n}\right)_{k_{n}}\left(b_{1}\right)_{k_{1}}\ldots \left(b_{n}\right)_{k_{n}}}{\left(c\right)_{k_{1}+\dots k_{n}}}}{\frac {z_{1}^{k_{1}}\ldots z_{n}^{k_{n}}}{k_{1}!\ldots k_{n}!}};/\max(\left|z_{1}\right|,\dots ,\left|z_{n}\right|)<1}
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{\displaystyle F_{C}^{(n)}\left(a;b;c_{1},\ldots ,c_{n};z_{1},\ldots ,z_{n}\right)=\sum _{k_{1}=0}^{\infty }\ldots \sum _{k_{n}=0}^{\infty }{\frac {(a)_{k_{1}+\ldots +k_{n}}(b)_{k_{1}+\ldots +k_{n}}}{\left(c_{1}\right)_{k_{1}}\ldots \left(c_{n}\right)_{k_{n}}}}{\frac {z_{1}^{k_{1}}\ldots z_{n}^{k_{n}}}{k_{1}!\ldots k_{n}!}};/{\sqrt {\left|z_{1}\right|}}+\ldots +{\sqrt {\left|z_{n}\right|}}<1}
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當 n = 2,時 the Lauricella 超幾何函數化為二元阿佩爾函數 :
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{\displaystyle F_{A}^{(2)}\equiv F_{2},\quad F_{B}^{(2)}\equiv F_{3},\quad F_{C}^{(2)}\equiv F_{4},\quad F_{D}^{(2)}\equiv F_{1}.}
當 n = 1, a則化為超幾何函數 :
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第三類不完全橢圓積分 可以通過三元的嫪麗切拉函數表示。
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{\displaystyle \Pi (n,\phi ,k)=\int _{0}^{\phi }{\frac {\mathrm {d} \theta }{(1-n\sin ^{2}\theta ){\sqrt {1-k^{2}\sin ^{2}\theta }}}}=\sin \phi \,F_{D}^{(3)}({\tfrac {1}{2}},1,{\tfrac {1}{2}},{\tfrac {1}{2}},{\tfrac {3}{2}};n\sin ^{2}\phi ,\sin ^{2}\phi ,k^{2}\sin ^{2}\phi ),\quad |\Re \,\phi |<{\frac {\pi }{2}}~.}
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