Center for Combinatorics, LPMC, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China ; Center for Combinatorics, LPMC, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China
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 summation, Bailey's transformations, and Bailey's summation.