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It is often convenient to identify the various special functions with contour integrals along certain paths in the complex plane. These integrals provide recursion formulas, asymptotic forms, and analytic continuations of the special functions. Also, they are sometimes used as definitions of special functions.1
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Seaborn, J.B. (1991). Integral Representations of Special Functions. In: Hypergeometric Functions and Their Applications. Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol 8. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5443-8_10
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