Explicit Constructions of Automorphic L-Functions

The goal of this research monograph is to derive the analytic continuation and functional equation of the L—functions attached by R.P. Langlands to automorphic representations of reductive algebraic groups. The first part of the book (by Piatetski—Shapiro and Rallis) deals with L—functions for the simple classical groups; the second part (by Gelbart and Piatetski—Shapiro) deals with non—simple groups of the form G GL(n), with G a quasi—split reductive group of split rank n. The method of pr...