%0 Journal Article
%T On the reciprocity theorem of Ramanujan and its applications
%A D. D. Somashekara
%A K. N. Vidya
%J -
%D 2018
%R DOI Code: 10.1285/i15900932v38n2p117
%X In this paper, we give two new proofs of the reciprocity theorem of Ramanujan found in his lost notebook. We derive the well-known quintuple product identity using the reciprocity theorem. Further we obtain two interesting partition theoretic identities from the reciprocity theorem
%K Basic hypergeometric series
%K reciprocity theorem
%K Jacobi's triple product identity
%K quintuple product identity
%K partition function
%U http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/notemat/article/view/20054