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Periods of automorphic forms, poles of L-functions and functorial lifting

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In this paper, we survey our work on period, poles or special values of certain automorphic L-functions and their relations to certain types of Langlands functorial transfers. We outline proofs for some results and leave others as conjectures.

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Ginzburg, D., Jiang, D. & Soudry, D. Periods of automorphic forms, poles of L-functions and functorial lifting. Sci. China Math. 53, 2215–2238 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-010-4020-9

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