Triple product sums of Catalan triangle numbers

Authors

  • Wenchang Chu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11575/cdm.v15i2.62472

Abstract

By means of quadratic transformations for the well-poised hypergeometric series, several reduction and transformation formulae are derived for the triple product sums of Catalan triangle numbers. One of them confirms a conjecture made recently by Miana, Ohtsuka and Romero  [18, 2017].

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Published

2020-07-30

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2020)

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