q-Chu-Vandermonde Identity
A q-analog of the Chu-Vandermonde identity given by
where
is the q-hypergeometric function. The identity can also be written as
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Gasper, G. and Rahman, M. Basic Hypergeometric Series. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, p. 236, 1990.
Koepf, W. Hypergeometric Summation: An Algorithmic Approach to Summation and Special Function Identities. Braunschweig, Germany: Vieweg, p. 43, 1998.