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 pro