1996/07/12 by Schilling, Anne, Warnaar, S. Ole
#FOS: Mathematics #Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.q-alg/9607014
In a recent letter, new representations were proposed for the pair of sequences (γ,δ), as defined formally by Bailey in his famous lemma. Here we extend and prove this result, providing pairs (γ,δ) labelled by the Lie algebra AN-1, two non-negative integers ℓ and k and a partition λ, whose parts do not exceed N-1. Our results give rise to what we call a ``higher-level'' Bailey lemma. As an application it is shown how this lemma can be applied to yield general q-series identities, which generalize some well-known results of Andrews and Bressoud.