A note of a modular equation of Ramanujan-Selberg continued fraction

DOI10.1007/S11139-021-00527-3MaRDI QIDQ2675256zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gaowen Xi, Qiu-Ming Luo

Publication date 21 September 2022

Published in The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-021-00527-3

zbMATH Keywords

Jacobi identitymodular equationRamanujan theta functionRamanujan-Selberg continued fraction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continued fractions (11A55) Theta series; Weil representation; theta correspondences (11F27) Continued fraction calculations (number-theoretic aspects) (11Y65) Continued fractions; complex-analytic aspects (30B70)

Review text

Let \(z\) and \(q\) be complex numbers such that \(|q| < 1\). The \(q\)-shifted factorial is defined by \[ (z;q)_\infty = (1=z)(1-zq)\cdots(1-zq^n)\cdots. \] Let, for \(|q| < 1\), define the Ramanujan-Selberg continued fraction of the form \[ T(q)=\cfrac{1}{1+}\; \cfrac{q}{1+} \; \cfrac{q+q^2}{1+}\; \cfrac{q^3}{1+} \; \cfrac{q^2+q^4}{1+} \cdots . \] It's known that \textit{H.-C. Chan} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 137, No. 9, 2849--2856 (2009; Zbl 1284.05016)] proved the following modular equation. Let \(\chi(q)=\cfrac{1}{2T^2(q)}\). Then \[ \chi(q)-\cfrac{q^{\tfrac{1}{2}}}{\chi(q)}=\cfrac{(q^{\tfrac{1}{2}};q^{\tfrac{1}{2}})^4_\infty}{2(q^2;q^2)^4_\infty}. \] A short proof of Chan's modular equation on the Ramanujan-Selberg continued fraction is given in this paper.

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