q-Bracket

The function defined by

			(1)
			(2)

for integer , where  is a q-binomial coefficient.

The -bracket satisfies

(3)

REFERENCES:

Gasper, G. and Rahman, M. Basic Hypergeometric Series. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Koepf, W. Hypergeometric Summation: An Algorithmic Approach to Summation and Special Function Identities. Braunschweig, Germany: Vieweg, p. 26, 1998.