in written codes 2 equality and 2 pluses are aligned. What I want is to align 2 equality in one hand, and 3 limits on the other hand. I thought that defining another "split" before the second limit would work, but it did not. Would you mind helping me out?
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
w(z)
&=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{(\alpha)_{n}}{n!} z^{n}\int_{\mathcal{C}}t^{(\beta+n)-1}(1-t)^{(\gamma-\beta)-1}dt\\
&=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{(\alpha)_{n}}{n!} z^{n}[\lim_{\sigma\rightarrow0}\int_{0}^{1-\sigma}t^{(\beta+n)-1}(1-t)^{(\gamma-\beta)-1}dt\\
&+\underbrace{\lim_{\sigma\rightarrow0}\int_{circle}t'^{(\beta+n)-1}(1-t')^{(\gamma-\beta)-1}dt'}_{0}\\
&+\lim_{\sigma\rightarrow0}\int_{1-\sigma}^{0}t''^{(\beta+n)-1}(1-t'')^{(\gamma-\beta)-1}dt'']
\end{split}
\end{equation}

alignedat, it will probably be better. It allows more alignment point, at the cost of having to specify the number of alignment points on a line as the argument to thealignedatenv (it is similar to thealignatenv) – daleif Jan 25 '18 at 08:38