Evaluations of some terminating hypergeometric ${}_2F_1(2)$ series

Abstract

Explicit expressions for the hypergeometric series ${}_2F_1(-n, a; 2a\pm j;2)$ and ${}_2F_1(-n, a; -2n\pm j;2)$ for positive integer $n$ and arbitrary integer $j$ are obtained with the help of generalizations of Kummer's second and third summation theorems obtained earlier by Rakha and Rathie. Results for $|j|\leq 5$ derived previously using different methods are also obtained as special cases.