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Christian Krattenthaler and Hari M. Srivastava

Summations for basic hypergeometric series involving a q-analogue of the digamma function

(24 pages)

Abstract. Using a simple method, numerous summation formulas for hypergeometric and basic hypergeometric series are derived. Among these summation formulas are nonterminating extensions and q-extensions of identities recorded by Lavoie, Luke, Watson, and Srivastava. At the result side of the basic hypergeometric summations there appears a q-analogue of the digamma function. Some of its properties are also studied.


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