New polynomial analogues of Jacobi's triple product and Lebesgue's identities

Abstract

In a recent paper by the authors, a bounded version of Goellnitz's (big) partition theorem was established. Here we show among other things how this theorem leads to nontrivial new polynomial analogues of certain fundamental identities of Jacobi and Lebesgue. We also derive a two parameter extension of Jacobi's famous triple product identity.