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A Bailey Lemma from the Quintuple Product

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Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics

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In a previous paper, the discovery of further Rogers-Ramanujan type identities from new Bailey Lemmas was discussed. In that paper, the starting point was a product of independent Jacobi triple products. In this paper, we start from the quintuple product.

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Andrews, G.E. (2002). A Bailey Lemma from the Quintuple Product. In: Agarwal, A.K., Berndt, B.C., Krattenthaler, C.F., Mullen, G.L., Ramachandra, K., Waldschmidt, M. (eds) Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8223-1_4

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