Functorial products for \(\text{GL}_2\times \text{GL}_3\) and the symmetric cube for \(\text{GL}_2\). (Q1871557): Difference between revisions

Langlands' functoriality is one of the central questions in the theory of automorphic forms. In this paper, the authors prove two cases of Langlands functoriality. The first is a functorial product for cusp forms on \(\text{GL}_2 \times \text{GL}_3\) as automorphic forms on \(\text{GL}_6\), from which they obtain the second case, the long awaited functorial symmetric cube map for cusp forms on \(\text{GL}_2\). Their approach is based on the Converse Theorem of Cogdell and Piatetski-Shapiro and the Langlands-Shahidi method, which studies automorphic \(L\)-functions via the constant and non-constant terms of the Eisenstein series. This is a powerful machinery which was later used for proving a number of cases of functoriality in papers by the authors and also in joint works with Cogdell and Piatetski-Shapiro. The paper concludes with a large number of applications. The first result establishes the bound 5/34 for Hecke eigenvalues of Maass forms over any number field at every place, finite or infinite, breaking the bound 1/6 towards the Ramanujan-Petersson and Selberg conjectures for \(\text{GL}_2\). Among other applications, we mention new examples of Artin's conjecture and global Langlands correspondence.