Nonelliptic functions from $F(\frac{1}{6}, \frac{5}{6} ; \frac{1}{2} ; \bullet)$

Abstract

As contributions to the Ramanujan theory of elliptic functions to alternative bases, Li-Chien Shen has developed families of elliptic functions from the hypergeometric functions $F(\tfrac{1}{3}, \tfrac{2}{3}; \tfrac{1}{2} ; \bullet)$ and $F(\tfrac{1}{4}, \tfrac{3}{4}; \tfrac{1}{2} ; \bullet)$. We apply his methods to the hypergeometric function $F(\tfrac{1}{6}, \tfrac{5}{6}; \tfrac{1}{2} ; \bullet)$.