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Short proofs of the elliptic beta integrals

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We give elementary proofs of the univariate elliptic beta integral with bases |q|,|p| < 1 and its multiparameter generalizations to integrals on the A n and C n root systems. We prove also some new unit circle multiple elliptic beta integrals, which are well defined for |q| = 1, and their p → 0 degenerations.

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  1. Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR, Dubna, Moscow, Reg. 141980, Russia

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Dedicated to Richard Askey on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification Primary—33D99, 33E05

This work is supported in part by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) grant no. 03-01-00781.

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Spiridonov, V.P. Short proofs of the elliptic beta integrals. Ramanujan J 13, 265–283 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-006-0252-2

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