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On the measure of linear and algebraic independence for values of entire hypergeometric functions. (English. Russian original) Zbl 0920.11046
Math. Notes 61, No. 2, 246-247 (1997); translation from Mat. Zametki 61, No. 2, 302-304 (1997).
The author computes explicit measures of transcendence for values of some generalized hypergeometric functions $$f$$ and their derivatives by applying a general theorem from one of his previous papers [V. V. Zudilin, Sb. Math. 187, No. 12, 1791–18181 (1996); translation from Mat. Sb. 187, No. 12, 57–86 (1996; Zbl 0878.11030)]. Let $$(E)$$ be the linear differential equation of order $$m$$ satisfied by $$f$$, and denote by $$\Psi_1,\dots, \Psi_m$$ a fundamental system of solutions of $$(E)$$. The problem in applying the above general theorem consists in proving that the functions $$\Psi_j^{(n-1)}$$, with $$j$$, $$n=1, \dots,m$$, are homogeneously algebraically independent over $$\mathbb C(z)$$.
In the present paper, the author solves it by using results on Galois groups of linear differential equations [N. M. Katz, Differential Galois groups, Princeton (1990)].
Reviewer: D.Duverney (Lille)
##### MSC:
 11J82 Measures of irrationality and of transcendence 11J91 Transcendence theory of other special functions 12H05 Differential algebra
Zbl 0878.11030
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##### References:
 [1] V. V. Zudilin,Mat. Sb. [Russian Acad. Sci. Sb. Math.],187, No. 12, 57–86 (1996). [2] N. M. Katz,Differential Galois Groups, Univ. Press, Princeton (1990).
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