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Pacific Journal of Mathematics 192 (2000), 1-37.

Generalized elliptic integrals and modular equations

G.D. Anderson, S.-L. Qiu, M.K. Vamanamurthy
and M. Vuorinen

Abstract:

In geometric function theory, generalized elliptic integrals and functions arise from the Schwarz-Christoffel transformation of the upper half-plane onto a parallelogram and are naturally related to Gaussian hypergeometric functions. Certain combinations of these integrals also occur in analytic number theory in the study of Ramanujan's modular equations and approximations to $\pi$. The authors study the monotoneity and convexity properties of these quantities and obtain sharp inequalities for them.