Identities of the Rogers--Ramanujan--Bailey Type

Abstract

A multiparameter generalization of the Bailey pair is defined in such a way as to include as special cases all Bailey pairs considered by W. N. Bailey in his paper, "Identities of the Rogers-Ramanujan type," [Proc. London Math. Soc. (2), 50 (1949), 421--435]. This leads to the derivation of a number of elegant new Rogers-Ramanujan type identities.