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Publications and source records attributed to George Gasper.
A summation formula is derived for the sum of the first m+1 terms of the 3F2(a,b,c;(a+b+1)/2,2c;1) series when c = -m is a negative integer. This summation formula is used to derive a formula for the sum of a terminating double hypergeometric series that arose in another project by one of us (C.D.)
Analogous to the use of sums of squares of certain real-valued special functions to prove the reality of the zeros of the Bessel functions J_α(z) when α\ge -1, confluent hypergeometric functions {}_0F_1(c; z) when c > 0 or 0 > c > -1, Laguerre polynomials L_n^α(z) when α\ge -2, Jacobi polynomials P_n^{(α,β)}(z) when α\ge -1 and β\ge -1, and some other entire special functions considered in G. Gasper [Using sums of squares to prove that certain entire functions have only real zeros, in Fourier Analysis: Analytic and Geometric Aspects, W. O. Bray, P. S. Milojević and C. V. Stanojević, eds., Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1994, 171--186.], integrals of squares of certain real-valued special functions are used to prove the reality of the zeros of the Pólya Ξ^*(z) function, the K_{iz}(a) functions when a > 0, and some other entire functions.
After reviewing some fundamental facts from the theory of theta hypergeometric series we derive, using indefinite summation, several summation, transformation, and expansion formulas for multibasic theta hypergeometric series. Some of the identities presented here generalize corresponding formulas given in Chapter 11 of the Gasper and Rahman book [Basic hypergeometric series, 2nd ed., Encyclopedia of Mathematics And Its Applications 96, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004].
A q-analogue a pair of multivariable biorthogonal polynomials found by M.V.Tratnik in 1989 is derived. The weight function is a product of a multivariable version of the integrand in the Askey-Roy integral and of the Askey-Wilson weight function in a single variable. In addition, a biorthogonality relation is derived for certain bivariate extensions of the $q$-Racah polynomials.
In 1991 Tratnik derived two systems of multivariable orthogonal Wilson polynomials and considered their limit cases. q-Analogues of these systems are derived, yielding systems of multivariable orthogonal Askey-Wilson polynomials and their special and limit cases.
In 1991 Tratnik derived two systems of multivariable orthogonal Racah polynomials and considered their limit cases. q-Extensions of these systems are derived, yielding systems of multivariable orthogonal q-Racah polynomials, from which systems of multivariable orthogonal q-Hahn, dual q-Hahn, q-Krawtchouk, q-Meixner, and q-Charlier polynomials follow as special or limit cases.
We deduce several curious q-series expansions by applying inverse relations to certain identities for basic hypergeometric series. After rewriting some of these expansions in terms of q-integrals, we obtain, in the limit q -> 1, some curious beta-type integral evaluations which appear to be new.