A NOTE ON THE ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION OF GENERALIZED HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTIONS

Abstract

We use arguments from probability theory to derive an explicit expression for the asymptotic expansion of the generalized hypergeometric function for p = q and show that the coefficients in the expansion are polynomials in the parameters of the hypergeometric function. The idea behind this paper originates from the second author's Ph.D. thesis, where the case p = 2 is treated.