Ramanujan's "Lost" notebook IX: The partial theta function as an entire function

George E. Andrews

doi:10.1016/j.aim.2004.03.013

Ramanujan's "Lost" notebook IX: The partial theta function as an entire function

George E. Andrews

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We establish the infinite product expansion for ∑_n≥0aⁿqⁿ². This is a corrected version of theexpansion stated in Ramanujan's "Lost" Notebook. The proof requires the study of a newfamily of polynomials which while not orthogonal have many similar properties.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	408-422
Number of pages	15
Journal	Advances in Mathematics
Volume	191
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2004.03.013
State	Published - Mar 1 2005

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