On Certain L Functions

Download or read book On Certain $L$-Functions written by James Arthur and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminate various areas of the study of geometric, analytic, and number theoretic aspects of automorphic forms and their $L$-functions, and both local and global theory are addressed. Topics discussed in the articles include Langlands functoriality, the Rankin-Selberg method, the Langlands-Shahidi method, motivic Galois groups, Shimura varieties, orbital integrals, representations of $p$-adic groups, Plancherel formula and its consequences, and the Gross-Prasad conjecture.