Double basic hypergeometric sums via a regularized Jackson $q$-integral

Abstract

Using the Andrews--Askey integral, we derive a holomorphic extension formula for a Jackson $q$-integral. This formula allows identities established for terminating specializations to be continued to the nonterminating case. Our first application yields two companion binomial-type double-sum formulas. The second formula contains, as special cases, the nonterminating Sears--Carlitz transformation of Gasper and Rahman and Rahman's generating function for the Askey--Wilson polynomials. Applying the same method to the $q$-Chu--Vandermonde and Rogers'${}_6\phi_5$ summations, we obtain two further integral representations for double sums of basic hypergeometric type. A balanced ${}_4\phi_3$ specialization of the latter identity is equivalent, via Sears'transformation, to the double-series transformation of Ismail, Rahman, and Suslov.