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On a Ramanujan's identity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

Manvendra Tamba
Affiliation:
Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, University of Madras, Madras-600 005, India
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In [4], Ramanujan stated the following beautiful identity which was later proved by Bailey [2] and [3];

We denote by S(n) the coefficient of qn on the right hand side of (1). The object of this paper is to prove the following two theorems.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1992

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