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Using Ramanujan’s identities and the Weierstrass–Enneper representation of minimal surfaces, and the analogue for Born–Infeld solitons, we derive further non-trivial identities.
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DEY, R. Ramanujan’s identities, minimal surfaces and solitons. Proc Math Sci 126, 421–431 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12044-016-0289-0
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