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- ↑ Langlands, R.P. (1978), L-Functions and Automorphic Representations (ICM report at Helsinki) (PDF).
- ↑ Borel, A. (1979), "Automorphic L-functions", Automorphic forms, representations and L-functions (Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, Ore., 1977), Part 2, Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., XXXIII, Providence, R.I.: Amer. Math. Soc., pp. 27–61, MR 0546608 .
- ↑ Godement, Roger; Jacquet, Hervé (1972), Zeta functions of simple algebras, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 260, Berlin-New York: Springer-Verlag, MR 0342495 .
- ↑ Gelbart, Stephen; Shahidi, Freydoon (1988), Analytic properties of automorphic L-functions, Perspectives in Mathematics, 6, Boston, MA: Academic Press, Inc., ISBN 0-12-279175-4, MR 0951897 .