Abel's method on summation by parts and terminating well-poised \(q\)-series identities (Q2643102)

The authors employ Abel's lemma on summation by parts to give new proofs of some summation formulas of Jackson, Bailey, Carlitz, Bressoud, and Guo for terminating well-poised \(_3\phi_2\), \(_4\phi_3\), and \(_5\phi_4\) series The authors characterize this approach as ``more simple and accessible to readers'' than other known proofs and they emphasize that Abel's lemma on summation by parts ``is indeed a very natural choice for working with basic hypergeometric series.''