We derive several new transformations relating WP-Bailey pairs. We also consider the corresponding transformations relating standard Bailey pairs, and as a consequence, derive some quite general expansions for products of theta functions which can also be expressed as certain types of Lambert series.

In the paper the basic analytical properties of the MacDonald function (the modified Bessel function of the second kind) are summarized and the properties of some subclasses of distribution functions based on MacDonald function, especially of the types $x^n{K}_n\left(x\right),x\ge 0,{\left|x\right|}^n{K}_n\left(x\left|x\right|\right),x\in 𝐑$ and $x^{n+1}{K}_n\left(x\right),x\ge 0$ are discussed. The distribution functions mentioned are useful for analytical modelling of composed (mixed) distributions, especially for products of random variables having distributions of the exponential type. Extensive and useful applications...

Mathematical Subject Classification 2010:26A33, 33E99, 15A52, 62E15.Mittag-Leffler functions and their generalizations appear in a large variety of problems in different areas. When we move from total differential equations to fractional equations Mittag-Leffler functions come in naturally. Fractional reaction-diffusion problems in physical sciences and general input-output models in other disciplines are some of the examples in this direction. Some basic properties of Mittag-Leffler functions are...

Using some results of the theory of functional equations we deduce some properties of the Jacobian sn z function which seem to be new. Some functional equations have also been found which are fulfilled by the sn z function which the author did not find in the literature.

For any odd prime p we obtain q-analogues of van Hamme’s and Rodriguez-Villegas’ supercongruences involving products of three binomial coefficients such as ${\sum }_{k=0}^{(p-1)/2}{\left[\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{2k}{k}\right]}_{q²}^3\left(q^{2k}\right)/\left((-q²;q²){²}_k(-q;q){²}_{2k}²\right)\equiv 0\left(mod\left[p\right]²\right)$ for p≡ 3 (mod 4), ${\sum }_{k=0}^{(p-1)/2}{\left[\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{2k}{k}\right]}_{q³}\left({(q;q³)}_k{(q²;q³)}_k{q}^{3k}\right)\left({(q⁶;q⁶)}_k²\right)\equiv 0\left(mod\left[p\right]²\right)$ for p≡ 2 (mod 3), where $\left[p\right]=1+q+\cdots +q^{p-1}$ and $(a;q)ₙ=(1-a)(1-aq)\cdots (1-a{q}^{n-1})$. We also prove q-analogues of the Sun brothers’ generalizations of the above supercongruences. Our proofs are elementary in nature and use the theory of basic hypergeometric series and combinatorial q-binomial identities including a new q-Clausen type summation formula.