{ "id": "1403.2236", "version": "v2", "published": "2014-03-10T13:38:15.000Z", "updated": "2016-09-22T10:15:12.000Z", "title": "On finite sums involving $(q)_n$", "authors": [ "Mohamed El Bachraoui" ], "comment": "This paper has been withdrawn by the author because the results follow trivially from a well-known identity of Heine", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We use an elementary argument to prove some finite sums involving expressions of the forms $(q)_n$ and $(a;q)_n$ along with inductive formulas for some sequences.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-03-10T13:38:15.000Z", "comment": "6 pages, submitted", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v2", "updated": "2016-09-22T10:15:12.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "finite sums", "elementary argument", "expressions" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 6, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1403.2236E" } } }