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On page 54 in his lost notebook, Ramanujan derives identities for the sum of the nth powers of n general theta functions. He states a beautiful general theorem, and then provides five particular examples.
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Andrews, G.E., Berndt, B.C. (2012). Circular Summation. In: Ramanujan's Lost Notebook. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3810-6_9
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