Two entries on bilateral hypergeometric series in Ramanujan's lost notebook
Authors:
Bruce C. Berndt and Wenchang Chu
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007), 129-134
MSC (2000):
Primary 33C20
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08553-4
Published electronically:
June 19, 2006
MathSciNet review:
2280181
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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.
- 1. George E. Andrews, Richard Askey, and Ranjan Roy, Special functions, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 71, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999. MR 1688958
- 2. J. Dougall, On Vandermonde's theorem and some more general expansions, Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc. 25 (1907), 114-132.
- 3. M. E. Horn, Bilateral binomial theorem, SIAM Problem 03-001 (2003).
- 4. S. Ramanujan, The Lost Notebook and Other Unpublished Papers, Narosa, New Delhi, 1988. MR 0947735 (89j:01078)
- 5. Lucy Joan Slater, Generalized hypergeometric functions, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1966. MR 0201688
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Bruce C. Berndt
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, 1409 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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
Email:
chu.wenchang@unile.it
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08553-4
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
Article copyright:
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