Whipple's Transformation
(Bailey 1935, p. 25), where
and
are generalized hypergeometric functions with argument
and
is the gamma function.
Another transformation due to Whipple (1926ab) is given by
for one of
and
a nonnegative integer (Andrews and Burge 1993).
REFERENCES:
Andrews, G. E. and Burge, W. H. "Determinant Identities." Pacific J. Math. 158, 1-14, 1993.
Bailey, W. N. Generalised Hypergeometric Series. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, pp. 25 and 29, 1935.
Whipple, F. J. W. "On Well-Poised Series, Generalized Hypergeometric Series Having Parameters in Pairs, Each Pair with the Same Sum." Proc. London Math. Soc. 24, 247-263, 1926a.
Whipple, F. J. W. "Well-Poised Series and Other Generalized Hypergeometric Series." Proc. London Math. Soc. Ser. 2 25, 525-544, 1926b.
Whipple, F. J. W. "A Fundamental Relation Between Generalized Hypergeometric Series." Proc. London Math. Soc. 26, 257-272, 1927.