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The multiple gamma function and its q-analogue

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  1. Department of Mathematics, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169, Japan

Abstract

We give an asymptotic expansion (the higher Stirling formula) and an infinite product representation (the Weierstrass product formula) of the Vignéras multiple gamma function by considering the classical limit of the multiple q-gamma function.

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Banach Center Publications
1997/40/1
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Pages:
429-441
Main language of publication
English
Published
1997
Exact and natural sciences