Some multiple hypergeometric transformations and associated reduction formulas

The main object of the present paper is to derive various classes of double-series identities and to show how these general results would apply to yield some (known or new) reduction formulas for the Appell, Kampé de Fériet, and Lauricella hypergeometric functions of several variables. A number of closely-related linear generating functions for the classical Jacobi polynomials are also investigated.  2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved