2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/161354We prove an identity for Hall--Littlewood symmetric functions labelled by the Lie algebra A_2. Through specialization this yields a simple proof of the A_2 Rogers--Ramanujan identities of Andrews, Schilling and the author.25 pages, typos correctedCombinatoricsQuantum Algebra05E05; 05A17; 05A19Hall--Littlewood functions and the A_2 Rogers--Ramanujan identitiestext