Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Author(s): William Y. C. Chen; Amy M. Fu
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), 1719-1725.
MSC (2000): Primary 33D15
Posted: December 5, 2005
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Abstract: We show that several classical bilateral summation and transformation formulas have semi-finite forms. We obtain these semi-finite forms from unilateral summation and transformation formulas. Our method can be applied to derive Ramanujan's $_{1}\psi _{1}$ summation, Bailey's $_{2}\psi _{2}$ transformations, and Bailey's $_{6}\psi _{6}$ summation.

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William Y. C. Chen
Affiliation: Center for Combinatorics, LPMC, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China
Email: chen@nankai.edu.cn

Amy M. Fu
Affiliation: Center for Combinatorics, LPMC, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China
Email: fu@nankai.edu.cn

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-05-08173-6
PII: S 0002-9939(05)08173-6
Keywords: Bilateral hypergeometric summation, semi-finite forms, Ramanujan's ${}_{1}\psi _{1}$ summation, Bailey's ${}_{2}\psi _{2}$ transformations, Bailey's ${}_{6}\psi _{6}$ summation.
Received by editor(s): December 8, 2004
Received by editor(s) in revised form: January 11, 2005
Posted: December 5, 2005
Communicated by: John R. Stembridge
Copyright of article: Copyright 2005, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.

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