{ "id": "1204.3399", "version": "v2", "published": "2012-04-16T08:31:24.000Z", "updated": "2013-03-12T09:16:30.000Z", "title": "On a strange evaluation of the hypergeometric series by Gosper", "authors": [ "Akihito Ebisu" ], "comment": "8pages When compared to the previous version, we changed the title of the paper to \"On a strange evaluation of the hypergeometric series by Gosper\". Because we found a letter of R.W.Gosper to D. Stanton in which a spacial case of the main theorem in our paper was stated", "categories": [ "math.CA" ], "abstract": "In a series of letters to D.Stanton, R.W.Gosper presented many strange evaluations of hypergeometric series. Recently, we rediscovered one of the strange hypergeometric identities appearing in [Go]. In this paper, we prove this identity and derive its generalization using contiguity operators. Key Words and Phrases: hypergeometric series, strange evaluation, contiguity operator. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification Numbers: 33C05.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2013-03-12T09:16:30.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "33C05" ], "keywords": [ "hypergeometric series", "strange evaluation", "contiguity operator", "mathematics subject classification numbers", "strange hypergeometric identities appearing" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 8, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2012arXiv1204.3399E" } } }