In mathematics, Heine's basic hypergeometric series, or hypergeometric q-series, are q-analog generalizations of generalized hypergeometric series, and are in turn generalized by elliptic hypergeometric series. A series xn is called hypergeometric if the ratio of successive terms xn+1/xn is a rational function of n. If the ratio of successive terms is a rational function of qn, then the series is called a basic hypergeometric series. The number q is called the base.
The basic hypergeometric series 2φ1(qα,qβ;qγ;q,x) was first considered by Eduard Heine (1846). It becomes the hypergeometric series F(α,β;γ;x) in the limit when the base q is 1.
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