The Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction and a new Eisenstein series identity (Q1024544): Difference between revisions

For complex \(\tau\) with \(\text{Im}(\tau)>0\), let \(q=e^{2\pi i\tau}\), and \[ G(z)=1+\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{q^{n^2}z^n}{(1-q)(1-q^2)\cdots(1-q^n)}. \] The relations \(G(1)=(q;q^5)_{\infty}^{-1}(q^4;q^5)_{\infty}^{-1}\) and \(G(q)=(q^2;q^5)_{\infty}^{-1}(q^3;q^5)_{\infty}^{-1}\) with \((a;q)_{\infty}=\prod_{n=1}^{\infty}(1-aq^n)\), are the well-known Rogers-Ramanujan identities. The Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction is defined by \[ R(\tau)= \frac{q^{1/5}}{ 1+\frac {q} {1+\frac {q^2}{1+\frac{q^3}{1+\cdots}}}}\;, \] and it is known that \(R(\tau)=q^{1/5}\frac{G(q)}{G(1)}\). The aim of this paper is to establish several new identities containing \(R(\tau)\). More precisely, for \(|q|<1\), \(\alpha=\frac{1-\sqrt{5}}{2}\) and \(\beta=\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2}\), the authors prove that \[ \prod_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{1+\alpha q^n+q^{2n}}-\prod_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{1+\beta q^n+q^ {2n}}=q^{1/12}\sqrt{\frac{5\eta(25\tau)}{\eta(5\tau)}R(5\tau)}, \] and \[ \beta\prod_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{1+\alpha q^n+q^{2n}}-\alpha\prod_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{1+\beta q^n+q^{2n}}=q^{1/12}\sqrt{\frac{5\eta(25\tau)}{\eta(5\tau)R(5\tau)}}, \] where \(\eta(\tau)=q^{1/24}(q;q)_{\infty}\). As corollaries, the authors reprove some known results of S. Ramanujan. Also, the paper contains a result, as companion of a published theorem by the third author, containing \(R(\tau)\), with two proofs.