Multinomial theorem for rational exponent in application to a trinomial

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sHello to everyone.What I am trying (and I can not find) is an expression in series the following trio with rational exponent: $$(1+x+y)^n$$ where n is a rational number, $$\mid x\mid<1,\mid y\mid<1$$

As it is known from the binomial theorem: $$(1+x)^n=\sum_{k=0}^\infty\binom{n}{k}x^k=_2F_1(-n,1,1,x)$$ What I'm looking for is a similar expression for the trinomial illustrated above. Remembering some notion on multinomial theorem i proceeds this: $$(1+x+y)^n=\sum_{k=0}^\infty\sum_{s=0}^k\binom{n}{k}\binom{k}{s} x^{k-s} y^{s}$$ Do you think this result is correct?If it were correct, how can I rewrite it in the form of hypergeometric function of several variables as shown before for the binomial theorem? Thanks very much for your help and for your time.

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Of course, you could just write :)

$_{2}F_{1}\left(-n,1;1;\left(x+y\right)\right)$
or $_{1}F_{0}\left(-n;-;\left(x+y\right)\right)$

But there is a named two variable form in $x^{n}y^{s}$

To facilitate the conversion we rephrase in terms of rising Pochhammer functions; the ones used in hypergeometric function definition:
$\left(\begin{array}{c} \alpha\\ k \end{array}\right)$ $=\frac{\left(-1\right)^{k}\left(-\alpha\right)_{k}}{k!} $

$\left(1+z\right)^{\alpha}={\displaystyle \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}}\frac{\left(-1\right)^{k}\left(-\alpha\right)_{k}}{k!}z^{k}$

$\left(1+\left(x+y\right)\right)^{\alpha}={\displaystyle \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}}\frac{\left(-1\right)^{k}\left(-\alpha\right)_{k}}{k!}\left(x+y\right)^{k}$
$I=\left(1+\left(x+y\right)\right)^{\alpha}={\displaystyle \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}}\frac{\left(-1\right)^{k}\left(-\alpha\right)_{k}}{k!}\left(1+\frac{y}{x}\right)^{k}\left(x\right)^{k} $
$={\displaystyle \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}}\frac{\left(-1\right)^{k}\left(-\alpha\right)_{k}}{k!}\left(x\right)^{k}{\displaystyle \sum_{s=0}^{k}}\left(\begin{array}{c} k\\ s \end{array}\right)\left(\frac{y}{x}\right)^{s} $ $={\displaystyle \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}}\frac{\left(-1\right)^{k}\left(-\alpha\right)_{k}}{1}\left(x\right)^{k}{\displaystyle \sum_{s=0}^{k}}\frac{1}{s!\left(k-s\right)!}\left(\frac{y}{x}\right)^{s} $
$={\displaystyle \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}}\frac{\left(-1\right)^{k}\left(-\alpha\right)_{k}}{1}{\displaystyle \sum_{s=0}^{k}}\frac{1}{s!\left(k-s\right)!}\left(x^{k-s}\right)\left(y\right)^{s} $
We reformat it to
Bateman's Special functions 5.7.1 http://apps.nrbook.com/bateman/Vol1.pdf
or
Wolfram's Horn's list http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HornFunction.html
$I={\displaystyle \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}}{\displaystyle \sum_{s=0}^{k}}\frac{\left(-1\right)^{k}\left(-\alpha\right)_{k}}{(k-s)!s!}\left(x\right)^{k-s}\left(y\right)^{s}$
Let $n=k-s$
$={\displaystyle \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}}{\displaystyle \sum_{s=0}^{k}}\frac{\left(-1\right)^{n+s}\left(-\alpha\right)_{\left(n+s\right)}}{(n)!s!}\left(x\right)^{n}\left(y\right)^{s}$
$={\displaystyle \sum_{k=0}^{\infty}}{\displaystyle \sum_{s=0}^{k}}\frac{\left(-\alpha\right)_{\left(n+s\right)}}{(n)!s!}\left(-x\right)^{n}\left(-y\right)^{s}$
$I=F_{2}\left(\alpha,1,1,1,1,-x,-y\right) $