New modular relations for the Göllnitz-Gordon functions. (Q1599573)

As usual, define \((a; q)_n:=\prod_{j=0}^{n-1}(1-aq^j)\). Then the Rogers-Ramanujan functions are defined as \[ \begin{gathered} G(q):=\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac {q^{n^2}}{(q; q)_n},\\ H(q):=\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{q^{n^2+n}}{(q; q)_n}.\end{gathered} \] Ramanujan found forty so-called modular relations for the functions \(G(q)\) and \(H(q)\); proofs of these and additional identities have been given by Darling, Watson, Rogers, Biagoli, and Bressoud. In this paper the authors consider modular relations for the Göllnitz-Gordon functions \[ \begin{gathered} S(q):=\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{(-q; q^2)_n}{(q^2; q^2)_n} {q^{n^2}},\\ T(q):=\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{(-q; q^2)_n}{(q^2; q^2)_n} {q^{n^2+2n}}. \end{gathered} \] The authors use what they call ``bare-hands'' methods to establish a number of new modular relations for these functions and to give new proofs of some known relations. They conclude by giving applications of their new modular relations to the theory of partitions.