English

Contiguous relations and summation and transformation formulas for basic hypergeometric series

Combinatorics 2013-04-23 v1

Abstract

By using contiguous relations for basic hypergeometric series, we give simple proofs of Bailey's 4ϕ3_4\phi_3 summation, Carlitz's 5ϕ4_5\phi_4 summation, Sears' 3ϕ2_3\phi_2 to 5ϕ4_5\phi_4 transformation, Sears' 4ϕ3{}_4\phi_3 transformations, Chen's bibasic summation, Gasper's split poised 10ϕ9_{10}\phi_9 transformation, Chu's bibasic symmetric transformation. Along the same line, finite forms of Sylvester's identity, Jacobi's triple product identity, and Kang's identity are also obtained.

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@article{arxiv.1304.5830,
  title  = {Contiguous relations and summation and transformation formulas for basic hypergeometric series},
  author = {Feng Gao and Victor J. W. Guo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.5830},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

14 pages, to appear in Journal of Difference Equations and Applications

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