Eisenstein Series in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook |
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Authors: | Berndt Bruce C. Chan Heng Huat Sohn Jaebum Son Seung Hwan |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, 1409 West Green St., Urbana, Illinois, 61801;(2) Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore, 119260, Republic of Singapore;(3) Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, 1409 West Green St., Urbana, Illinois, 61801;(4) 1808 Stearns Hill Road, Waltham, Massachusetts, 02451 |
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Abstract: | In his lost notebook, Ramanujan stated without proofs several beautifulidentities for the three classsical Eisenstein series (in Ramanujan's notation) P(q), Q(q), and R(q). The identities are given in terms of certain quotients of Dedekind eta-functions called Hauptmoduls. These identities were first proved by S. Raghavan and S.S. Rangachari, but their proofs used the theory of modular forms, with which Ramanujan was likely unfamiliar. In this paper we prove all these identities by using classical methods which would have been well known to Ramanujan. In fact, all our proofs use only results from Ramanujan's notebooks. |
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Keywords: | Eisenstein series modular equations Ramanujan's lost notebook theta functions Dedekind eta function differential equations for Eisenstein series |
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