This book provides a comprehensive account of the crucial role automorphic $L$-functions play in number theory and in the Langlands program, especially the Langlands functoriality conjecture. There has been a recent major development in the Langlands functoriality conjecture by the use of automorphic $L$-functions, namely, by combining converse theorems of Cogdell and Piatetski-Shapiro with the Langlands-Shahidi method. This book provides a step-by-step introduction to these developments and explains how the Langlands functoriality conjecture implies solutions to several outstanding conjectures in number theory, such as the Ramanujan conjecture, Sato-Tate conjecture, and Artin's conjecture. It would be ideal for an introductory course in the Langlands program.
- ISBN10 0821835165
- ISBN13 9780821835166
- Publish Date 1 January 2004
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 November 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint American Mathematical Society
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 283
- Language English