Generalized reciprocal identities

Authors

Timothy Huber, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Daniel Schultz

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

5-2016

Abstract

Included in Ramanujan’s Notebooks are two reciprocal identities. The first identity connects the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction with an eta quotient. The second identity is a level thirteen analogue. These are special cases of a more general class of relations between eta quotients and modular functions defined by product generalizations of the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction. Each identity is shown to be a relation between generators for a certain congruence subgroup. The degree, form, and symmetry of the identities is determined from behavior at cusps of the congruence subgroup whose field of functions the parameters generate. The reciprocal identities encode information about fundamental units and class numbers for real quadratic fields.

Comments

Original published version available at https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/13113

Recommended Citation

Huber, Tim, and Daniel Schultz. "Generalized reciprocal identities." Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 144.11 (2016): 4627-4639. https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/13113

Publication Title

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

DOI

10.1090/proc/13113