• Honam Mathematical Journal
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.701-706
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• 2013

Summation theorems for hypergeometric series $_2F_1$ and generalized hypergeometric series $_pF_q$ play important roles in themselves and their diverse applications. Some summation theorems for $_2F_1$ and $_pF_q$ have been established in several or many ways. Here we give a proof of Watson's classical summation theorem for the series $_3F_2$(1) by following the same lines used by Rakha [7] except for the last step in which we applied an integral formula introduced by Choi et al. [3].

• The Pure and Applied Mathematics
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• v.12 no.3 s.29
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• pp.223-228
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• 2005

In 2001, Choi, Harsh & Rathie [Some summation formulas for the Appell's function $F_1$. East Asian Math. J. 17 (2001), 233-237] have obtained 11 results for the Appell's function $F_1$ with the help of Gauss's summation theorem and generalized Kummer's summation theorem. We aim at presenting 22 more results for $F_1$ with the help of the generalized Gauss's second summation theorem and generalized Bailey's theorem obtained by Lavoie, Grondin & Rathie [Generalizations of Whipple's theorem on the sum of a $_3F_2$. J. Comput. Appl. Math. 72 (1996), 293-300]. Two interesting (presumably) new special cases of our results for $F_1$ are also explicitly pointed out.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.569-575
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• 2006

We aim mainly at presenting two generalizations of the well-known Gauss's second summation theorem and Bailey's formula for the series $_2F_1(1/2)$. An interesting transformation formula for $_pF_q$ is obtained by combining our two main results. Relevant connections of some special cases of our main results with those given here or elsewhere are also pointed out.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.621-633
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• 2012

By establishing a new summation formula for the series $_3F_2(\frac{1}{2})$, recently Rathie and Pogany have obtained an interesting result known as Kummer type II transformation for the generalized hypergeometric function $_2F_2$. Here we aim at deriving their result by using a very elementary method and presenting two elegant results for certain terminating series $_3F_2(2)$. Furthermore two interesting applications of our new results are demonstrated.