Solving Double Sum with _2F_1 Hypergeometric Function

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Hello Physicsforum,

I am trying to compute the following double sum:

\sum_{j\in\mathbb{N}_0/2}\sum_{m=-j}^j\frac{x^{j+m}}{(j+m)!(j-m)!}e^{-\kappa^2j(j+1)/s}

where x, kappa and s are parameters. It is possible with e.g. Mathemtatica to carry out the sum over m explicitly, which yields

\sum_{j\in\mathbb{N}_0/2}(j!)^{-2}e^{-\kappa^2j(j+1)/s}[_2F_1(1,-j,j+1,-x^{-1})+_2F_1(1,-j,j+1,-x)-1]

where _2F_1 is the ordinary hypergeometric function. This is however a fairly horrendous expression to sum over. It would be intereseting enough to understand the asymptotic behaviour of the final result for large and for small x as a function of s and kappa.

Does anybody have ideas/tricks in mind how to deal with this sum and maybe approximate it?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
 
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Part of the problem is that this has nothing to do with "Linear and Abstract Algebra". I am moving it to "general math".
 

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