ON A CERTAIN SUM OF AUTOMORPHIC L-FUNCTIONS
ON A CERTAIN SUM OF AUTOMORPHIC L-FUNCTIONS
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关于一定数量的自同构 L 函数
DOI:
10.1090/conm/614/12270
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发表时间:
2013
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1
通讯作者:
N. Chau
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作者:
N. Chau
In Tate’s thesis [20], the characteristic function of Zp has been used in the integral representation of the local L-factor associated to an unramified quasicharacter. This construction has been generalized by Tamagawa, Godement and Jacquet in [19, 8] to principal L-functions of GLn with the characteristic function of the space of integral matrices as test function. The general automorphic L-function depends on a representation of the dual group. For each representation of the dual group, one can construct a function depending on a complex parameter s whose trace on an unramified representation is the associated local L-factor. The main contribution of this paper is a conjectural geometric description of this test function by means of Vinberg’s theory of algebraic monoids [21]. Prior to us, efforts have been made in this direction, notably by Braverman and Kazhdan [4] and Lafforgue [11]. By inserting into the trace formula the product of these functions at almost every place, we would get, at least formally, the sum of L-functions considered in [6, 7]. We will explain a conjectural geometric interpretation of this sum of L-functions. This paper is intended for an expository purpose, necessary details and proofs will be published elsewhere. I would like to thank W. Casselman, D. Jiang and the referee for their comments, and especially Y. Sakellaridis for enlightening exchange of views. I wasn’t fortunate enough to know Professor Piatetski-Shapiro personally, though I met him once or twice. In a conference in Luminy some time around 2004, his wife told me that Professor Piatetski-Shapiro appreciated my works. I keep the fond memory of this comment as one of my proudest mathematical prizes. I dedicate this work to his memory as an expression of a deep admiration for his ideas and courage.