Symmetry, aggregation, and scaling on slit-plane nodes #
Carlson (1987), (2.2)–(2.5), with arbitrary complex parameters. Positive real scaling is branch-safe on the whole slit plane; arbitrary complex scaling would require additional branch assumptions. Zero-parameter deletion retains a nonempty remaining index type. Coincident-node and singleton formulas also cover Gamma zeros in the regularized normalization.
Equal nodes may be combined by any surjective partition, on the full slit domain.
Simultaneous permutation of nodes and parameters leaves L unchanged.
Coincident slit-plane nodes give the elementary power-logarithm kernel.
The singleton convention, including the reciprocal Gamma regularization.
Positive real scaling preserves the principal-branch node domain.
Equation (2.5) on slit-plane nodes: scaling contributes the logarithmic R-term.