Equianharmonic
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, and in particular the study of Weierstrass elliptic functions, the equianharmonic case occurs when the Weierstrass invariants satisfy and ;
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; see also the lemniscatic case. (These are special examples of complex multiplication
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).

In the equianharmonic case, the minimal half period is real and equal to


where is the Gamma function
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. The half period is


Here the period lattice is a real multiple of the Eisenstein integer
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s.

The constant
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s , and are given by


The case g2=0, g3=a may be handled by a scaling transformation.
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