DETERMINANT EXPRESSIONS FOR HYPERELLIPTIC FUNCTIONS IN GENUS(16)

Let #(u) and #(u) be the usual functions in the theory of elliptic functions. The following two formulae were found in the nineteenth-century. First one is

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