Landen transformation formulas, which connect Jacobi elliptic functions with
different modulus parameters, were first obtained over two hundred years ago by
changing integration variables in elliptic integrals.We rediscover known
results as well as obtain more generalized Landen formulas from a very
different perspective, by making use of the recently obtained periodic
solutions of physically interesting nonlinear differential equations and
numerous remarkable new cyclic identities involving Jacobi elliptic functions.
We find that several of our Landen transformations have a rather different and
substantially more elegant appearance compared to the forms usually found in
the literature. Further, by making use of the cyclic identities discovered
recently, we also obtain some entirely new sets of Landen transformations. This
paper is an expanded and revised version of our previous paper math-ph/0204054.