Revisiting a Classic Identity That Implies the Rogers–Ramanujan Identities III †
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. The Bridge Lemma
- if , and
- if , and
3. A New Proof of (3)
4. Conclusions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A. A Recap of the First Two Papers in the Series
Appendix B. Some Details on (13) and (14)
Appendix C. The Evaluation of Jr in (21)
- Method 1
- Method 2
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Chicago/Turabian StyleChan, Hei-Chi. 2024. "Revisiting a Classic Identity That Implies the Rogers–Ramanujan Identities III" Mathematics 12, no. 17: 2611. https://doi.org/10.3390/math12172611