Basic hypergeometric summations from rook theory
Michael J. Schlosser, Meesue Yoo

TL;DR
This paper uses an extended q-rook theory to provide combinatorial proofs for important basic hypergeometric summations, enhancing understanding of their combinatorial structure.
Contribution
It introduces a one-variable extension of q-rook theory to prove key hypergeometric summations combinatorially, offering new insights into their structure.
Findings
Provided combinatorial proofs for q-Pfaff-Saalschütz summation
Proved a 4phi3 summation by Jain using rook theory
Extended q-rook theory to a one-variable case
Abstract
We employ a one-variable extension of q-rook theory to give combinatorial proofs of some basic hypergeometric summations, including the q-Pfaff-Saalsch\"utz summation and a 4phi3 summation by Jain.
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
