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A new general conjugate Bailey pair

Michael J. Rowell

Vol. 238 (2008), No. 2, 367–385
Abstract

We introduce a new general conjugate Bailey pair which bridges the gap between Bailey and Slater’s work and the work done recently by Andrews and Warnaar. With this new general pair we are able to find many useful conjugate Bailey pairs similar to those of Andrews and Warnaar. Using our new pairs we show results related to the sums of triangular numbers, indefinite quadratic forms and partition identities. We close with a brief discussion of the many other paths that can and will be taken in the future.

Keywords
basic hypergeometric series, conjugate Bailey pairs
Mathematical Subject Classification 2000
Primary: 05A19, 11P82, 05A18, 33D15
Milestones
Received: 19 February 2008
Revised: 26 June 2008
Accepted: 2 September 2008
Published: 1 December 2008
Authors
Michael J. Rowell
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Pacific University
Forest Grove, OR 97116
United States
www.math.pacificu.edu/~rowell