Algebraic hypergeometric transformations of modular origin

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DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-07-04128-1zbMATH Open1145.11034arXivmath/0501425WikidataQ62796069 ScholiaQ62796069MaRDI QIDQ3433740FDOQ3433740


Authors: Robert S. Maier Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 2 May 2007

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is shown that Ramanujan's cubic transformation of the Gauss hypergeometric function 2F1 arises from a relation between modular curves, namely the covering of X0(3) by X0(9). In general, when 2leNle7 the N-fold cover of X0(N) by X0(N2) gives rise to an algebraic hypergeometric transformation. The N=2,3,4 transformations are arithmetic-geometric mean iterations, but the N=5,6,7 transformations are new. In the final two the change of variables is not parametrized by rational functions, since X0(6),X0(7) are of genus 1. Since their quotients X0+(6),X0+(7) under the Fricke involution (an Atkin-Lehner involution) are of genus 0, the parametrization is by two-valued algebraic functions. The resulting hypergeometric transformations are closely related to the two-valued modular equations of Fricke and H. Cohn.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501425




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