Analogue of Ramanujan's function k(\tau) for the continued fraction of order six

Abstract: We study the modularity of the function

w (a u) = X (a u) X (3 a u)

, where

X (a u)

is the continued fraction of order six introduced by Vasuki, Bhaskar and Sharath (2010). The function

w (a u)

is an analogue of Ramanujan's function

k (a u) = r (a u) r (2 a u)^{2}

, where

r (a u)

is the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction. We prove that

w (a u)

is an

e t a

-quotient that generates the field of all modular functions on the congruence subgroup

G a m m a_{0} (18)

, and express

X (a u)

and

X (3 a u)

in terms of

w (a u)

. We also show that there is a modular equation for

w (a u)

of any level, and provide explicitly the modular equations of level

p

for primes

p l e q 13

. We finally show that

w (f r a c a u 3)

generates the ray class field

K_{(6)}

over an imaginary quadratic field

K

modulo

6

for some suitable

a u i n K

.

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