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On quintic Eisenstein series and points of order five of the Weierstrass elliptic functions

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We employ a new constructive approach to study modular forms of level five by evaluating the Weierstrass elliptic functions at points of order five on the period parallelogram. A significant tool in our analysis is a nonlinear system of coupled differential equations analogous to Ramanujan’s differential system for the Eisenstein series on SL(2,ℤ). The resulting relations of level five may be written as a coupled system of differential equations for quintic Eisenstein series. Some interesting combinatorial and analytic consequences result, including an alternative proof of a famous identity of Ramanujan involving the Rogers–Ramanujan continued fraction.

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Huber, T. On quintic Eisenstein series and points of order five of the Weierstrass elliptic functions. Ramanujan J 28, 273–308 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-011-9368-0

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