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704] A MEMOIR ON THE SINGLE AND DOUBLE THETA-FUNCTIONS,
then, substituting for P and Q their values, we have
0 - -1 < w+ ^ l + ^ |) -1 + «0 (* V]r !+*t) •
= + pv') 01 + (<nt' + TV') 02,
if for shortness
then operating with 0 on the equations A = wA? u Va&, &c., we have for instance
.4.0.B — BdA = &r-ìc n k 7 { (W + pv') (V«. d-pJb — \/b 0jVa)
+ (crii' + tv') (V a. 0 2 Vò — V& 0 2 V a)},
which is one of a system of 120 equations, the A, B being in fact any two of the
16 functions.
These are in fact nothing else than the foregoing system of 120 equations giving
the values of the differential combinations So0Si — & c -> each as a sum of products
of pairs of functions, only on the right-hand sides we have expressions such as
Va d^b — V& 0 X Va, &c., which present themselves as perfectly determinate functions of
x, y : so that, regarding «' + pv', au' + tv as given linear functions of the arbitrary
quantities u, v', there is no longer anything indeterminate in the form of the equations.