Special Issue "q-Series and Related Topics in Special Functions and Analytic Number Theory"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Hari M. Srivastava
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3060 STN CSC, Victoria, B.C. V8W 3R4, Canada
Website: http://www.math.uvic.ca/faculty/harimsri
E-Mail: harimsri@math.uvic.ca
Interests: real and complex analysis; fractional calculus and its applications; integral equations and transforms; higher transcendental functions and their applications; q-Series and q-Polynomials; analytic number theory

Dear Colleagues,

Basic (or q-) series and basic (or q-) polynomials are known to occur frequently in many diverse fields of mathematical and physical sciences. The recent overwhelming contributions toward the Rogers-Ramanujan, Jacobi's Triple-Product and Macdonald Identities, Mock Theta Functions, Rogers-Ramanujan Continued Fractions, and so on, together with the recent developments involving such basic (or q-) functions of Analytic Number Theory as (for example) the q-Zeta and related functions, cannot be over-emphasized. Thus, naturally, publication of a Special Issue of Axioms featuring invited articles in these and other related areas, especially in the year 2012 in which the world is celebrating the 125th birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920), would be a rather welcome and important event.

Prof. Dr. Hari M. Srivastava
Guest Editor

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• q-series and q-polynomials
• Rogers-Ramanujan continued fractions
• Rogers-Ramanujan identities
• q-hypergeometric functions
• q-gamma and q-beta functions
• Jacobi's triple-product identities
• q-Jacobi polynomials
• q-Laguerre polynomials
• q-Hermite polynomials
• q-Wilson polynomials

Type of Paper: Article
Title: Golden Ratio and a Ramanujan-type integral
Authors: Hei-Chi Chan
Affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS)
Abstract: In this paper, we evaluate a Ramanujan-type integral formula. The result can be expressed in terms of the Golden Ratio. Our evaluation is based on several beautiful formulas discovered by Ramanujan.

Type of Paper: Article
Title: The Generalized Euler Distribution Truncated to Support r, r+1, r+2, . . .
Author: Adrienne Kemp
Affniation: School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, St. Andrews , Fife, KY16 9SS, UK
Abstract: The paper studies structural and Markov process models for the generalized Euler distribution truncated to support r, r+1, r+2, . . . . Its use in hurdle models is described. Moment properties are obtained.