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Two entries on bilateral hypergeometric series in Ramanujan’s lost notebook
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by Bruce C. Berndt and Wenchang Chu
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007), 129-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08553-4
Published electronically: June 19, 2006
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Abstract:

Two entries of bilateral sums in Ramanujan’s lost notebook are confirmed by means of Dougall’s bilateral series identities with one of them being corrected.
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Bibliographic Information
  • Bruce C. Berndt
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, 1409 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801
  • MR Author ID: 35610
  • Email: berndt@math.uiuc.edu
  • Wenchang Chu
  • Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Lecce, Lecce-Arnesano P. O. Box 193, 73100 Lecce, Italy
  • MR Author ID: 213991
  • Email: chu.wenchang@unile.it
  • Received by editor(s): July 23, 2005
  • Published electronically: June 19, 2006
  • Additional Notes: The first author’s research was partially supported by grant MDA904-00-1-0015 from the National Security Agency.
  • Communicated by: Jonathan M. Borwein
  • © Copyright 2006 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007), 129-134
  • MSC (2000): Primary 33C20
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08553-4
  • MathSciNet review: 2280181