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In previous work arising from the study of Ramanujan's Lost Notebook, a new Abel type lemma was proved. In this paper, we discuss extensions of this lemma and use it to prove many q-series identities.
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The first author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS–0200047. The second author was partially supported by FCT, Portugal, through program POCTI.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification:Primary—33D15; Secondary—05A30
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Andrews, G.E., Freitas, P. Extension of Abel's Lemma with q-Series Implications. Ramanujan J 10, 137–152 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-005-4844-z
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