Rankin-Selberg Theory of L-functions

Thursday, April 17, 2014 - 12:00
Thackeray 427
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Mahdi Asgari

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The so-called Rankin-Selberg method is a powerful method, albeit more of an art than science, to establish analytic properties of L-functions. I will give an introduction mostly through examples. Time permitting, I will report on joint work with J. Cogdell and F. Shahidi developing a Rankin-Selberg integral for general spin groups, generalizing parts of results of D. Ginzburg and D. Soudry and Gelbart-Piatetski-Shapiro-Rallis for classical groups.

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