# General Formulas for Explicit Evaluations of Ramanujan's Cubic Continued Fraction

• Naika, Megadahalli Sidda Naika Mahadeva (Department of Mathematics, Bangalore University, Central College Campus) ;
• Maheshkumar, Mugur Chinna Swamy (Department of Mathematics, Bangalore University, Central College Campus) ;
• Bairy, Kurady Sushan (Department of Mathematics, Bangalore University, Central College Campus)
• Received : 2008.02.16
• Accepted : 2008.07.08
• Published : 2009.09.30
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#### Abstract

On page 366 of his lost notebook [15], Ramanujan recorded a cubic continued fraction and several theorems analogous to Rogers-Ramanujan's continued fractions. In this paper, we derive several general formulas for explicit evaluations of Ramanujan's cubic continued fraction, several reciprocity theorems, two formulas connecting V (q) and V ($q^3$) and also establish some explicit evaluations using the values of remarkable product of theta-function.

#### Keywords

cubic continued fraction;modular equation;theta-function

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