Gamma Identities from Inverse Transform

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I have been working on a transform (the notes are a little rough and the hosting website has some fraction formatting issues recently) but the idea is there:

Basically, the transform $\mathcal{I}_x[f(x)](s)$, will extract the coefficients of the scaled inverse function, $f^{-1}(x)/x$, in a manner analogous to the Mellin transform.

I have found a pattern that seems to generate Gamma function identities that Mathematica cannot simplify or verify. This was done by acting on simple polynomial expressions for which I previously found that the principal inverse (via series reversion) was a generalised hypergeometric function which led to the following results:

\begin{align} \mathcal{I}[x+x^2](s) = \frac{\Gamma(1-\frac{2s}{1})\Gamma(\frac{s}{1}) }{\Gamma(2-s)}\\ \mathcal{I}[x+x^3](s) = \frac{\Gamma(1-\frac{3s}{2})\Gamma(\frac{s}{2})}{2 \Gamma(2-s)} \\ \mathcal{I}[x+x^4](s) = \frac{8 \cdot 3^{s-\frac{5}{2}}\pi \Gamma(-4s/3)\Gamma(s/3)}{\Gamma(2/3-s/3)\Gamma(4/3-s/3)\Gamma(-s/3)} \stackrel{?}{=}\frac{\Gamma(1-\frac{4s}{3})\Gamma(\frac{s}{3})}{3 \Gamma(2-s)} \end{align} the last one appears to be true, but Mathematica won't simplfy it. In short the generalised conjecture is that the Mellin transform of this generalised hypergeometric function has a very simple result $$ \mathcal{M}_x\left[\;_{(m-1)}F_{(m-2)}\left(\left\{\frac{1}{m},\frac{2}{m},\cdots,\frac{m-1}{m}\right\};\left\{\frac{2}{m-1},\cdots,\frac{m-2}{m-1},\frac{m}{m-1}\right\};-\frac{m^mx^{m-1}}{(m-1)^{m-1}}\right)\right](s) = \frac{\Gamma\left(1-\frac{m s}{m-1}\right)\Gamma\left(\frac{s}{m-1}\right)}{(m-1)\Gamma(2-s)} = \mathcal{I}_x[x+x^m](s) $$ which only makes sense for integer $m$. Any way to prove this general statement? How do we simplify the identity that Mathematica couldn't?

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For the Gamma function identity, we use the multiplication formula for the Gamma function, choosing $n=3, z=\frac{2}{3}-\frac{s}{3}$: \begin{align} \Gamma\left(nz\right)&=(2\pi)^{(1-n)/2}n^{nz-(1/2)}\prod_{k=0}^{n-1}\Gamma\left(z+\frac{k}{n}\right)\\ \Gamma\left(2-s\right)&=\frac{1}{2\pi}3^{3/2-s}\Gamma\left( \frac{2}{3}-\frac{s}{3} \right)\Gamma\left(1-\frac{s}{3} \right)\Gamma\left( \frac{4}{3}-\frac{s}{3} \right) \end{align} Now, with the functional relation $ \Gamma\left( 1+u \right)=u\Gamma(-u) $ applied with $u=-s/3$ and $u=-4s/3$ \begin{equation} \frac{\Gamma(1-\frac{4s}{3})\Gamma(\frac{s}{3})}{3 \Gamma(2-s)}=\frac{8\pi\Gamma(-\frac{4s}{3})\Gamma(\frac{s}{3})}{3^{5/2-s}\Gamma\left( \frac{2}{3}-\frac{s}{3} \right)\Gamma\left(-\frac{s}{3} \right)\Gamma\left( \frac{4}{3}-\frac{s}{3} \right)} \end{equation} as expected.

For the Mellin transform question, we evaluate the inverse transform of the function \begin{equation} f(s)=\frac{\Gamma(1-\frac{ms}{m-1})\Gamma(\frac{s}{m-1})}{ \Gamma(2-s)} \end{equation} assuming that the domain of analicity is $0<\Re (s) <\frac{m-1}{m}$. It can be noticed that the poles in the left complex half-plane are $s_p=-p(m-1)$, with $p=0,1,2\ldots$ Their residues are \begin{equation} r_p=\frac{(m-1)\Gamma(mp+1)}{\Gamma\left(2+p(m-1) \right)}\frac{(-1)^p}{p!} \end{equation} In the following we use the multiplication formula above with $z=1/n$, \begin{equation} \prod_{k=1}^{n-1}\Gamma\left(\frac{k}{n}\right)=(2\pi)^{(n-1)/2}n^{-1/2} \end{equation} to write \begin{align} \Gamma\left(np\right)&=(2\pi)^{(1-n)/2}n^{np-(1/2)}\prod_{k=0}^{n-1}\Gamma\left(p+\frac{k}{n}\right)\\ &=(2\pi)^{(1-n)/2}n^{np-(1/2)}\Gamma(p)\prod_{k=1}^{n-1}\Gamma\left(\frac{k}{n}\right)\left( \frac{k}{n} \right)_p\\ &=n^{np-1}\Gamma(p)\prod_{k=1}^{n-1}\left( \frac{k}{n} \right)_p \end{align}

Using the functional relation this residue can be converted into a ratio of Gamma functions: \begin{align*} r_p&=\frac{mp(m-1)}{p(m-1)\left( 1+p(m-1) \right)}\frac{\Gamma(mp)}{\Gamma\left(p(m-1) \right)}\frac{(-1)^p}{p!}\\ &=\frac{m}{\left( m-1 \right)\left(p+\frac{1}{m-1} \right)} \frac{m^{mp-1}\Gamma(p)\prod_{k=1}^{m-1}\left( \frac{k}{m} \right)_p}{(m-1)^{(m-1)p-1}\Gamma(p)\prod_{k=1}^{m-2}\left( \frac{k}{m-1} \right)_p} \frac{(-1)^p}{p!}\\ &=\frac{\Gamma\left(p+\frac{1}{m-1} \right)}{\Gamma\left(p+1+\frac{1}{m-1} \right)} \frac{\prod_{k=1}^{m-1}\left( \frac{k}{m} \right)_p}{\prod_{k=1}^{m-2}\left( \frac{k}{m-1} \right)_p} \left(- \frac{m^m}{(m-1)^{m-1}} \right)^{p}\\ &=\frac{\left(\frac{1}{m-1} \right)_p\Gamma\left( \frac{1}{m-1} \right)}{\left(1+\frac{1}{m-1} \right)_p\Gamma\left(1+ \frac{1}{m-1} \right)} \frac{\prod_{k=1}^{m-1}\left( \frac{k}{m} \right)_p}{\prod_{k=1}^{m-2}\left( \frac{k}{m-1} \right)_p} \left(- \frac{m^m}{(m-1)^{m-1}} \right)^{p}\\ &=\left( m-1 \right)\frac{\left(\frac{1}{m-1} \right)_p}{\left(1+\frac{1}{m-1} \right)_p} \frac{\prod_{k=1}^{m-1}\left( \frac{k}{m} \right)_p}{\prod_{k=1}^{m-2}\left( \frac{k}{m-1} \right)_p} \left(- \frac{m^m}{(m-1)^{m-1}} \right)^{p} \end{align*}

The inverse transform can thus be expressed as a hypergeometric series: \begin{align*} \mathcal{M}_x^{-1}\left[ \frac{1}{m-1}f(s)\right]&=\frac{1}{m-1}\sum_{p=0}^\infty r_px^{p(m-1)}\\ &=\;_{(m-1)}F_{(m-2)}\left(\left\{\frac{1}{m},\frac{2}{m},\cdots,\frac{m-1}{m}\right\}; \left\{\frac{2}{m-1},\cdots,\frac{m-2}{m-1},\frac{m}{m-1}\right\};-\frac{m^mx^{m-1}}{(m-1)^{m-1}}\right)\\ \end{align*} which is the proposed identity.