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Some identities for terminating q-series

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. M. Bressoud
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University

Extract

We present the following sequence of polynomial identities:

is the Gaussian polynomial denned to be zero for m < 0 or m > N, one for m = 0 or N and

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1981

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