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Are traditional notations for elliptic integrals/functions in Latin or Greek letters?

I am doing some calculation involving elliptic integrals/functions, and find the notations confusing. In Wittaker-Watson, the "Jacobi's earlier notation" H(u) is called the Eta-f …
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Evaluating the average distance from a point in the unit disk to the disk

I am interested in finding the average Euclidean distance from a point $(x,y)\in\mathbb{D}_2$, the unit disk $\{(u,v):u^2+v^2\leq 1\}\subseteq\mathbb{R}^2$, to the disk $\mathbb{D} …
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Proofs of Jacobi’s four-square theorem

What are the nicest proofs of Jacobi’s four-square theorem you know? How much can they be streamlined? How are they related to each other? I know of essentially three aproaches. …
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Special values of a doubly periodic meromorphic function

Consider the following function: $G(z) = \prod_{n \in \mathbb{Z}} {1 \over{\tanh^2\left(\pi\left(z-n\right)\right)}}$. By constuction, it has poles at $z=m+in$ with $m,n \in \mat …
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Convexity of Jacobi’s theta function with zero argument

This question may be elementary, I have asked it on math.stackexchange.com but have not received any answer yet. Note that I am not an expert on theta/elliptic functions. Define J …
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question about the recursion equation: $x_{n+1}x_{n−1}=x_n^2(1−4x_n)$

Hi all, I am trying to slove the recursion equation: $x_{n+1}x_{n−1}=x_n^2(1−4x_n)$ in the form of $x_n=x_n(x_1,x_2)$ or $x_n=x_n(c_1,c_2)$, and finally get the limit of the ratio …