%0 Journal Article %T Summation identities and special values of hypergeometric series in the $p$-adic setting %A Rupam Barman %A Neelam Saikia %A Dermot McCarthy %J Mathematics %D 2014 %I arXiv %X We prove hypergeometric type summation identities for a function defined in terms of quotients of the $p$-adic gamma function by counting points on certain families of hyperelliptic curves over $\mathbb{F}_{q}$. We also find certain special values of that function. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5003v1