Thomae's formula

In mathematics, Thomae's formula is a formula introduced by Thomae (1870) relating theta constants to the branch points of a hyperelliptic curve (Mumford 1984, section 8).

References

Mumford, David (1984), Tata lectures on theta. II, Progress in Mathematics 43, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston, ISBN 978-0-8176-3110-9, MR 742776
Thomae, Carl Johannes (1870), "Beitrag zur Bestimmung von θ(0,0,...0) durch die Klassenmoduln algebraischer Funktionen", Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik 71: 201–222

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