New curious bilateral \(q\)-series identities (Q398539)

Summary: By applying a classical method, already employed by Cauchy, to a terminating curious summation by one of the authors, a new curious bilateral \(q\)-series identity is derived. We also apply the same method to a quadratic summation by Gessel and Stanton, and to a cubic summation by Gasper, respectively, to derive a bilateral quadratic and a bilateral cubic summation formula.