Zeros of \(p\)-adic hypergeometric functions, \(p\)-adic analogues of Kummer's and Pfaff's identities (Q2206214)

The author studies character sums, Gauss sums, Jacobi sums, \(p\)-adic gamma function, \(p\)-adic hypergeometric functions and, \(p\)-adic Kummer-type and Pfaff-type identities. The author gives all the zeros and nonzero values of a family of hypergeometric series in the \(p\)-adic setting. The author also shows that these values of hypergeometric series in the padic setting lead to transformations of hypergeometric series in the \(p\)-adic setting which can be described as \(p\)-adic analogues of Kummer's and Pfaff's linear transformations on classical hypergeometric series. The author interprets certain summation identities for hypergeometric series in the \(p\)-adic setting besides Gaussian hypergeometric series