A higher-order generalization of Jacobi's derivative formula and its algebraic geometric analogue (Q2240423)

This paper deals with a higher-order generalization of Jacobi's derivative formula and its algebraic geometric analogue. The author generalizes Jacobi's derivative formula for odd \(m\) by writing an \(m\times m\) determinant of higher order derivatives at \(0\) of theta functions in one variable with characteristic vectors with entries in \(\frac{1}{12m}\mathbb{Z}\) as an explicit constant times a power of Dedekind's \(\eta\)-function. He does so by deriving it from an algebraic geometric version that holds in characteristic not dividing \(6m\).