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    Q-shifted Factorial

    Alternate name
    Definition

    The q-analog of the Pochhammer symbol defined by (a;q)_k = { product_(j = 0)^(k - 1)(1 - a q^j) | if k>0 1 | if k = 0 product_(j = 1)^( left bracketing bar k right bracketing bar ) (1 - a q^(-j))^(-1) | if k<0 product_(j = 0)^∞(1 - a q^j) | if k = ∞ auto right match (Koepf 1998, p. 25). q-Pochhammer symbols are frequently called q-series and, for brevity, (a;q)_n is often simply written (a)_n. Note that this contention has the slightly curious side-effect that the argument is not taken literally, so for example (-q)_n means (-q;q)_n, not (-q; - q)_n (cf. Andrews 1986b).

    Related Wolfram Language symbol

    QPochhammer

    Associated person

    Leo August Pochhammer

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