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The author extends a number of results of Drinfeld concerning the Langlands correspondence for the \(\text{GL}(2)\)-case to the higher rank situation. The main theorem he obtains in doing this is a large part of the Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture for the function field case. The main tool for proving such results are generalizations of Drinfeld's concept of the so-called ``shtukas'' to the case of higher rank vector bundles by combining it with the concept of \({\mathcal D}\)-elliptic sheaves of the paper of \textit{G. Laumon, M. Rapoport} and \textit{U. Stuhler} [Invent. Math. 113, 217-338 (1993; Zbl 0809.11032)] by considering an additional action of a sheaf of division algebras, which makes ``things more compact'', at least for the case \(r=1\). The first three chapters of the book contain a study of \({\mathcal D}\)-shtukas of arbitrary rank. Chapter I proves representability of the functor of rank \(r\) \({\mathcal D}\)-shtukas with level structure as an algebraic stack \(\text{Cht}_{{\mathcal D},I}^r\). Chapter II studies questions of reducibility of \({\mathcal D}\)-shtukas which occurs only for rank \(r\geq 2\) and lead to some interesting modifications of the Harder-Narasimhan filtration of vector bundles on curves. Chapter III studies these concepts over finite fields and gives the adelic description of shtukas which ultimately comes down to the description of a vector bundle as a system of lattices. Chapter IV studies the special case of rank \(r=1\), which is easier in several respects. Finally, in chapters V and VI, the calculation of Lefschetz numbers (traces of operators of type (Frobenius)\(\times \)(Hecke) on cohomology) and the evaluation of the Arthur-Selberg trace formula and its application to the Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture are done.