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In this important paper on Euler products, dedicated to Professor Goro Shimura, the authors reexamine the Rankin-Selberg integrals of Bump and Hoffstein and Suzuki, by a method close to that of Piatetski-Shapiro and Rallis. Bump and Hoffstein proposed generalizing the results of Shimura by involving the generalized theta series \(\theta_n\) on the \(n\)-fold metaplectic cover of \(\text{GL}(n)\), in the sense of Kazhdan and Patterson. They recognized that when \(\pi\) is an automorphic representation of the \(n\)-fold metaplectic cover of \(\text{GL}(r)\), the Rankin-Selberg convolution of \(\pi\) with \(\theta_n\) should be Eulerian and should in fact agree with the \(L\)-function of an automorphic form on \(\text{GL}(r)\). Bump and Hoffstein proved this conjecture in special cases, but the result was finally proved in full and generalized by T. Suzuki. In this paper, the generating functions on the metaplectic group for the standard \(L\)-functions are obtained by using the results of Kazhdan and Patterson. Since the cocycle formulas in Kazhdan and Patterson are found to be true on the assumption that \(-1\) is an \(n\)th power, the authors make this assumption for their results in Section 3, which require cocycle calculations. The authors then exhibit a conjecture formula for the Whittaker models of the exceptional representation as integrals of these generating functions. This conjectural formula is applied to obtain the Euler products of Bump and Hoffstein, and finally the conjecture is proved when \(r\leq 3\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0919.00046].