Is this a typo? An exercise in Riemann Surfaces by Donaldson
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I'm trying to solve an exercise in the book "Riemann Surfaces" by Donaldson. But I think there might be a typo in it. Consider the hypergeometric equation $$z(1-z)u''+(c-(a+b+1)z)u'-abu,$$ where $a,b,cinmathbb{C}$ are some fixed constants. This exercise asks us to, among other things, show that the indicial equation of the hypergeometric equation at $z=0$ has roots $0$ and $c$ . But according to my calculations, and also according to Wikipedia, the roots of the indicial equation should be $0$ and $1-c$ (Wikipedia uses $gamma$ while I use $c$ , but whatever). Is this a typo in the book?
ordinary-differential-equations riemann-surfaces
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