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Two theorems of Gauss and allied identities proved arithmetically (English)
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1972
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This paper is devoted to giving arithmetic proofs of two of Gauss's identities: \[ \sum_{-\infty}^{\infty}(-1)^nq^{n(2n-1)}=\prod_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{(1-q^{2n})}{(1+q^{2n-1})}\, , \] \[ \sum_{-\infty}^{\infty}(-1)^nq^{n^2}=\prod_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{(1-q^n)}{(1+q^n)}\, . \] The techniques developed are then applied to a number of formulae for basic hypergeometric series.
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product formulae of Gauss for theta functions
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partitions
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enumeration technique
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basic hypergeometric series
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