Analogies of Jacobi's formula

Abstract

By considering Schwarz's map for the hypergeometric differential equation with parameters $(a,b,c)=(1/6,1/2,1)$ or $(1/12,5/12,1)$, we give some analogies of Jacobi's formula ${\vartheta }_{00}(\tau {)}^2=F(1/2,1/2,1;\lambda (\tau ))$, where ${\vartheta }_{00}(\tau )$ and $\lambda (\tau )$ are the theta constant and the lambda function defined on the upper-half plane, and $F(a,b,c;z)$ is the hypergeometric series defined on the unit disk. As applications of our formulas, we give several functional equations for $F(a,b,c;z)$.

26 pages, 3 figures