The signature four elliptic theory of Ramanujan is provided with a counterpart to the Jacobian modular sine; this counterpart yields natural direct proofs of several hypergeometric identities recorded by Ramanujan, bypassing the signature four transfer principle of Berndt et al. [‘Ramanujan’s theories of elliptic functions to alternative bases’, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 347 (1995), 4163–4244].

We consider an extension of the Ramanujan series with a variable $x$. If we let $x=x_{0}$, we call the resulting series ‘Ramanujan series with the shift $x_{0}$’. Then we relate these shifted series to some $q$-series and solve the case of level $4$ with the shift $x_{0}=1/2$. Finally, we indicate a possible way towards proving some patterns observed by the author corresponding to the levels $\ell =1,2,3$ and the shift $x_{0}=1/2$.

We provide a comprehensive study of the function $h=h(q)$ defined by

$$\begin{eqnarray}h=q\mathop{\prod }_{j=1}^{\infty }\frac{(1-q^{12j-1})(1-q^{12j-11})}{(1-q^{12j-5})(1-q^{12j-7})}\end{eqnarray}$$

$k=k(q)$

$$\begin{eqnarray}k=q\mathop{\prod }_{j=1}^{\infty }\frac{(1-q^{10j-1})(1-q^{10j-2})(1-q^{10j-8})(1-q^{10j-9})}{(1-q^{10j-3})(1-q^{10j-4})(1-q^{10j-6})(1-q^{10j-7})}.\end{eqnarray}$$

We prove that there is a correspondence between Ramanujan-type formulas for $\def \xmlpi #1{}\def \mathsfbi #1{\boldsymbol {\mathsf {#1}}}\let \le =\leqslant \let \leq =\leqslant \let \ge =\geqslant \let \geq =\geqslant \def \Pr {\mathit {Pr}}\def \Fr {\mathit {Fr}}\def \Rey {\mathit {Re}}1/\pi $ and formulas for Dirichlet $L$-values. Our method also allows us to reduce certain values of the Epstein zeta function to rapidly converging hypergeometric functions. The Epstein zeta functions were previously studied by Glasser and Zucker.

We prove the conjectural relations between Mahler measures and L-values of elliptic curves of conductors 20 and 24. We also present new hypergeometric expressions for L-values of elliptic curves of conductors 27 and 36. Furthermore, we prove a new functional equation for the Mahler measure of the polynomial family (1+X) (1+Y )(X+Y )−αXY, α∈ℝ.

Let $D$ be the $n$-dimensional Lie ball and let $B\text{(S)}$ be the space of hyperfunctions on the Shilov boundary $S$ of $D$. The aim of this paper is to give a necessary and sufficient condition on the generalized Poisson transform ${{P}_{l,\text{ }\!\!\lambda\!\!\text{ }}}f$ of an element $f$ in the space $B\text{(S)}$ for $f$ to be in ${{L}^{p}}\left( S \right)$, $1\,<\,p\,<\,\infty $. Namely, if $F$ is the Poisson transform of some $f\in \,B(S)$$F\,=\,{{P}_{l,\lambda }}f$), then for any $l\,\in \,Z$) and $\lambda \,\in \,C$ such that $Re[\text{i}\lambda ] > \frac{n}{2}\,-\,1$, we show that $f\,\in \,{{L}^{p}}\text{(}S\text{)}$ if and only if $f$ satisfies the growth condition

$${{\left\| F \right\|}_{\lambda ,p}}=\underset{0\le r<1}{\mathop{\sup }}\,{{\left( 1\,-\,{{r}^{2}} \right)}^{\operatorname{Re}\left[ \text{i }\lambda \text{ } \right]-\frac{n}{2}+l}}{{\left[ \,\int_{s}{{{\left| F\left( ru \right) \right|}^{p}}du} \right]}^{\frac{1}{p}}}<\,+\infty $$