1. Introduction and Preliminaries
Srivastava and Karlsson [
23] introduced and examined triple hypergeometric functions, offering a table of 205 different functions of this type. In [
19,
20], Srivastava presented the triple hypergeometric functions
,
, and
of the second order.
is the generalization of both F1 and F2, whereas
, and
are known to be generalizations of Appell’s hypergeometric functions
and
.
This study will concentrate on Srivastava’s triple hypergeometric function
, which is provided as [
23], p. 43, 1.5(11) to 1.5(13) (see also [
19] and [
22], p. 68)
In [
6], p. 43, the convergence region for the hypergeometric series
is given as
,
,
, with the condition
Exton’s function
is a different type of hypergeometric function defined as
with the convergence region for the series
.
Now, we find it suitable to introduce a new parameter
b into
as follows
which reduces to (
1) when
.
Where
is the Pochhammer symbol defined by
Here, the classical Gamma function [
13] is defined as
and the classical Beta function
is defined as [
11], (5.12.1)
In 1997, Chaudhry
et al. [
2], q.(1.7) introduced a
q-extension of
given by
In 2018, Shadab
et al. [
15] has given a further extension of the Beta function as
which reduces to (
8) when
and
denotes the Mittag-Leffler function defined by [
10],
In 2020, Oraby
et al. [
12] introduced a generalized Beta function in the form
which reduces to (
9) when
.
Where
is the generalized Mittag-Leffler function introduced in 1905 by Wiman [
24] defined as
Abubakar [
1] introduced a generalized Beta function in 2021, as
( )
is the Fox-Wright function ([
7,
8]) defined as
where
,
,
(
). By taking
(
12) converges for (i)
when
,
(ii) when , and
(iii) if, in addition, .
If
eq. (
12) becomes the generalized hypergeometric function
[
26]
The layout of this paper is as follows. In
Section 2, we define the generalized Srivastava triple hypergeometric function
using the generalized Beta function given in (
10) and provide a numerical approximation table.
Section 3 presents several integral representations involving the generalized Mittag-Leffler function and Exton’s function
, along with some differential properties. In
Section 4, we examine classical integral transforms, including the Euler–Beta, Laplace, Mellin, and Whittaker transforms.
Section 5 focuses on the application of Riemann-Liouville fractional integral and differential operators to
, leading to new results in the context of fractional calculus. Finally, in
Section 6 we establishes several recurrence relations to further characterize the generalized function. This work is also motivated by previous studies on Srivastava’s triple hypergeometric function, as discussed in [
3,
5].
2. The Generalized Srivastava Triple Hypergeometric Function
Here, we define the generalized Srivastava triple
through the generalized Beta function defined in (
10)
where,
and
and the region of convergence is
,
,
, with
+
+
+
.
In terms of the generalized Mittag-Leffler function, we now obtain
using the generalized beta function provided in (
10) in (
14) as follows:
We use of the above eq. (
15) throughout the paper.
Example 1.Table 1 provides numerical approximation values of the generalized Srivastava triple hypergeometric function
as defined in (
14), evaluated for various values of the parameters
q,
a,
, and
, with the indices considered up to the
nth term; for example,
.
3. Certain Properties of
We go over a few integral representations and derivative properties in this section.
1. Integral representations
The integral representations for the function, which involves the product of Exton’s function and the Mittag-Leffler function with two parameters, are obtained as follows.
Theorem 1.
For , () and the integral representation of is as follows :
Proof: By changing the order of integration and summation (with uniform convergence of the integral) in (
15) and using the relation (
7), after simplification, utilizing the Exton’s triple hypergeometric function (
3), we get the result (
16).
Remark 1. Through appropriate changes of the integration variable, we now discuss some special cases. To obtain the following integral representations:
where
where,
where
and
where
we put
2. Derivative properties
Here we discuss some derivative propeties of .
Theorem 2.
The following derivative formula holds for
where , ; and .
Proof: Using (
15) and employing term-wise differentiation
m times in L.H.S of (
21), we obtain
Theorem 3.
Let and , then satisfies the following differentiation formula
Proof: Using (
15) in the R.H.S of (
22), yields
Now using the relation
in (
23), we get
4. Integral Transform of
The focus here is on analyzing integral transforms of the function , specifically the Euler-Beta, Laplace, Mellin, and Whittaker transforms.
1. Euler-Beta Transform
The Euler-Beta transform of the function
is defined as [
18]
Theorem 4.
For , we have the following Euler-Beta transform of
Proof: Using (
24) in (
15), we obtain
By evaluating the integral as
using the Fox-Wright function (
12) in the above sum and employing in (
26), we obtain,
The above integral is evaluated using the generalized Beta function given in (
11) to reach the required result (
25).
2. Laplace Transform
The Laplace transform of a function
is defined as [
18]
Theorem 5.
For and , we have the following Laplace transform of
Proof: Employing (
15) in the integral on the L.H.S. of (
28), yields
By evaluating the integral as
using the Fox-Wright function (
12) in the above sum and employing in (
29), we find,
The above integral is evaluated using the generalized Beta function given in (
11) to obtain the required result (
28).
3. Mellin Transform
The Mellin transform of the function
is defined as [
18],
and the inverse Mellin transform is given by
Theorem 6.
For ; , , we have the following Mellin transform of
where is given in (4).
Proof: Employing (
15) in the integral on the L.H.S. of (
32), we obtain
Now, by taking
and
in the result ([
16], Th. 4.1) as follows
where
L is the contour of integration that begins at
and ends at
,
yields,
where
Using (
30), (
31), and (
34), we get
Now, put (
35) in (
33), leads to
Evaluate the integral using the classical Beta function defined in (
7), yields
Identifying the above sum as
given in (
4), we get the desired result (
32).
Corollary 1: For
the inverse Mellin transform formula for
is as follows:
5. Whittaker Transform
Theorem 7.
For ; , we have the following Whittaker transform of
Proof: Applying (
37) in (
15), yields
Now consider,
put
in the above equation, yields
Now using the relation
where
is the Whittaker function [
25], in (
39), we get
Using (
12), we get
Applying (
40) in (
38), we obtain
The above integral is evaluated using the generalized Beta function given in (
11) to obtain the required result (
37).
6. Fractional Calculus of
In this part, we examine various findings related to the right-sided Riemann-Liouville fractional integral operator
and derivative operator
, which are defined as follows, respectively [
9,
14]:
and
where
is the greatest integer.
A generalized Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative operator
of order
and type
with respect to
w was introduced by Hilfer [
4] as follows:
Theorem 8.
Let , then for , the function satisfies the following relations
where and .
Proof. Use (
15) in (
41), and with the help of the relation [
14]
for
it follows that,
Now, using (
15) in (
42), yields
Using (
21), reaches the result (
45).
Furthermore, after using the eqs. (
15) and (
43), follows that
Applying the result of Srivastava and Tomovski ([
21], p.203, eq.(2.18))
in (
47), (
46) is established.
7. Recurrence Relations for
In this section, we derive some recurrence relations for .
Theorem 9.
With respect to the numerator parameter , we have the following recurrences for
Proof. With the help of the identity
and from (
14), we find
Let the first sum in (
50) as
S. Following the index shift
, we apply the identity
, which yields
Now, using the relation
we get
Similarly, analyzing the second summation in (
50) with the subsitution
, we express it as
Combining (
51) and (
52) with (
50) yields the desired recurrence relation (
48). Replacing
with
in (
48), leads directly to the result (
49).
Corollary 2: For positive integer
N, the recurrence formulas for
from (
48) are
and
8. Conclusions
In this paper, we presented generalized Srivastava triple hypergeometric function
, as introduced in (
14). Several integral representations involving the generalized Mittag-Leffler function and Exton’s function
were established, alongside several analytical properties. We also derived integral transforms of the generalized function, including the Euler-Beta, Laplace, Mellin, and Whittaker transform. The action of Riemann-Liouville fractional integral and differential operators on the function was examined, providing new insights within the framework of fractional calculus. Finally, recurrence relations were obtained, offering a deeper understanding of the characteristic properties of the function. These findings provide a foundation for further analytical studies and potential applications in mathematical physics, fractional differential equations, and other areas involving generalized special functions.
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Table 1.
Numerical approximation table for the generalised hypergeometric function
in (
14), for different values of
q,
a,
, and
, with fixed parameters
,
,
,
,
,
, and variables
,
,
.
Table 1.
Numerical approximation table for the generalised hypergeometric function
in (
14), for different values of
q,
a,
, and
, with fixed parameters
,
,
,
,
,
, and variables
,
,
.
| q |
a |
|
|
|
| 0.005 |
0.010 |
0.015 |
0.020 |
|
| 0.010 |
0.015 |
0.020 |
0.025 |
|
| 0.015 |
0.020 |
0.025 |
0.030 |
|
| 0.020 |
0.025 |
0.030 |
0.035 |
|
| 0.025 |
0.030 |
0.035 |
0.040 |
|
| 0.030 |
0.035 |
0.040 |
0.045 |
|
| 0.035 |
0.040 |
0.045 |
0.050 |
|
| 0.040 |
0.045 |
0.050 |
0.055 |
|
| 0.045 |
0.050 |
0.055 |
0.060 |
|
| 0.050 |
0.055 |
0.060 |
0.065 |
|
|
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