The function F(a; b; z) dened in the previous section, has been extensively
studied by Fine [1], which is a special case of Heine's function. Fine has shown
that the function F(a; b; z) satises a number of q-dierence equations. In the
present context, I consider here one of the rst order linear q-dierence [1, equ.
(2.4)] equation satised by F(a; b; z), viz.