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§19.5 Maclaurin and Related Expansions

For Jacobi’s nome q:

Also,

19.5.6q=\lambda+2\lambda^{5}+15\lambda^{9}+150\lambda^{{13}}+1707\lambda^{{17}}+\cdots,0\leq k\leq 1,

where

19.5.7\lambda=(1-\sqrt{k^{{\prime}}})/(2(1+\sqrt{k^{{\prime}}})).

Coefficients of terms up to \lambda^{{49}} are given in Lee (1990), along with tables of fractional errors in \mathop{K\/}\nolimits\!\left(k\right) and \mathop{E\/}\nolimits\!\left(k\right), 0.1\leq k^{2}\leq 0.9999, obtained by using 12 different truncations of (19.5.6) in (19.5.8) and (19.5.9).

An infinite series for \mathop{\ln\/}\nolimits\mathop{K\/}\nolimits\!\left(k\right) is equivalent to the infinite product

where k_{0}=k and

Series expansions of \mathop{F\/}\nolimits\!\left(\phi,k\right) and \mathop{E\/}\nolimits\!\left(\phi,k\right) are surveyed and improved in Van de Vel (1969), and the case of \mathop{F\/}\nolimits\!\left(\phi,k\right) is summarized in Gautschi (1975, §1.3.2). For series expansions of \mathop{\Pi\/}\nolimits\!\left(\phi,\alpha^{2},k\right) when |\alpha^{2}|<1 see Erdélyi et al. (1953b, §13.6(9)). See also Karp et al. (2007).