Euler and Laplace integral representations of GKZ hypergeometric functions

Abstract

We introduce an interpolation between Euler integral and Laplace integral: Euler-Laplace integral. We establish a combinatorial method of constructing a basis of the rapid decay homology group associated to Euler-Laplace integral with a nice intersection property. This construction yields a remarkable expansion formula of cohomology intersection numbers in terms of GKZ hypergeometric series. As an application, we obtain closed formulas of the quadratic relations of Aomoto-Gelfand hypergeometric functions and their confluent analogue in terms of bipartite graphs.