The and functions introduced in Chapters13 and15, as well as the more generalfunctions introduced in the present chapter, are all special cases of theMeijer-function. This is a consequence of the following relations:
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As a corollary, special cases of the andfunctions, including Airy functions, Bessel functions, parabolic cylinderfunctions, Ferrers functions, associated Legendre functions, and many orthogonal polynomials, areall special cases of the Meijer-function. Representations of specialfunctions in terms of the Meijer-function are given inErdélyi et al. (1953a, §5.6),Luke (1969a, §§6.4–6.5), andMathai (1993, §3.10).