基本超幾何函數是廣義超幾何函數的q模擬。
![{\displaystyle \;_{j}\phi _{k}\left[{\begin{matrix}a_{1}&a_{2}&\ldots &a_{j}\\b_{1}&b_{2}&\ldots &b_{k}\end{matrix}};q,z\right]=\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {(a_{1},a_{2},\ldots ,a_{j};q)_{n}}{(b_{1},b_{2},\ldots ,b_{k},q;q)_{n}}}\left((-1)^{n}q^{n \choose 2}\right)^{1+k-j}z^{n}}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/274d2ef79218e289c26f62120cb6dcfcc6636248)
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![{\displaystyle \;_{j}\psi _{k}\left[{\begin{matrix}a_{1}&a_{2}&\ldots &a_{j}\\b_{1}&b_{2}&\ldots &b_{k}\end{matrix}};q,z\right]=\sum _{n=-\infty }^{\infty }{\frac {(a_{1},a_{2},\ldots ,a_{j};q)_{n}}{(b_{1},b_{2},\ldots ,b_{k};q)_{n}}}\left((-1)^{n}q^{n \choose 2}\right)^{k-j}z^{n}.}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/501e00fbffa51da9bab6469656fbf853df7d794c)
下列基本超幾何函數在q->1時,化為超幾何函數[1]
= ![{\displaystyle \;_{j}F_{k}\left[{\begin{matrix}a_{1}&a_{2}&\ldots &a_{j}\\b_{1}&b_{2}&\ldots &b_{k}\end{matrix}};q,z\right]}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/54c9c5acefcc7bda7e1728534029ae8a3b83f26a)
下列公式是二項式定理的q模擬:
![{\displaystyle _{1}\Phi _{0}([a],[];q;z)=}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/2a661b1eb79a4546dd7847df8a3a4b622d7c0456)


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