On inequalities for hypergeometric analogues of the arithmetic-geometric mean.
T. Kaluza has given a criterion for the signs of the power series of a function that is the reciprocal of another power series. In this note the sharpness of this condition is explored and various examples in terms of the Gaussian hypergeometric series are given. A criterion for the monotonicity of the quotient of two power series due to M. Biernacki and J. Krzyż is applied.
We discuss possible topological configurations of nodal sets, in particular the number of their components, for spherical harmonics on . We also construct a solution of the equation in that has only two nodal domains. This equation arises in the study of high energy eigenfunctions.