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On the arithmetic nature of some identities of the elliptic functions theory


Bykovskii V. A., Monina M. D.

2013, issue 1, P. 15-34


Abstract
The article offers a new arithmetic method of proof of the classical triple, quintuple and octuple product identities of the theta functions theory.

Keywords:
theta function, Liouville’s identity, infinite product

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