Cubic modular equations in two variables (Q908067)

What this paper has in store is plenty of basic concepts of very many terminologies of special functions, besides establishing and explaining some useful results. That is why, as the author submits, Section 1 and Section 2 contain reviews of several keywords and key results of the theory that this paper involves. Section 3 includes the main results on two-variable generalizations. Sections 4 and 5 have complete statement of the six theta constants, which are useful in obtaining F subscript 1, the first of the four two-variable hypergeometric functions introduced by \textit{P. Appell} [Resal J. (3) 8, 173--217 (1882; JFM 14.0375.01)] and can be referred to any standard monograph on special functions, and F, given by equation (1.4) on page 330 of this paper. Section 6 presents comprehensible proofs of equations (1.3) and (1.4) which are based on identities of theta functions. A comprehensive account of six theta functions is given in Section 4. The work of \textit{K. Koike} and \textit{H. Shiga} [J. Number Theory 124, No. 1, 123--141 (2007; Zbl 1128.11026)] is extended and have been put in terms of modular equations (Sections 2 and 3 of this paper gives an account of one-variable cubic modular equations and in Section 3, we notice the explicit mention of the two-variable modular equations), which excavate simpler derivation of the results in the paper of Koike and Shiga, and simultaneously gives several modular equations for Picard modular functions. Section 7 gives some applications of the modular equations contained in (1.3) and (1.4).