Abstract

It is shown that the residue expansion of an elliptic Selberg integral gives rise to an integral representation for a multiple modular hypergeometric series. A conjectural evaluation formula for the integral then implies a closed summation formula for the series, generalizing both the multiple basic hypergeometric 8?7 sum of Milne-Gustafson type and the (one-dimensional) modular hypergeometric 8?7 sum of Frenkel and Turaev. Independently, the modular invariance ensures the asymptotic correctness of our multiple modular hypergeometric summation formula for low orders in a modular parameter.