Modularity of the Rankin-Selberg L-series, and multiplicity one for SL(2)

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DOI10.2307/2661379zbMATH Open0989.11023arXivmath/0007203OpenAlexW2144493057MaRDI QIDQ1589983FDOQ1589983

Dinakar Ramakrishnan

Publication date: 14 May 2001

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A fundamental question, first raised by Langlands, is to know whether the Rankin-Selberg product of two (not necessarily holomorphic) cusp forms f and g is modular, i.e., if there exists an automorphic form f box g on GL(4)/Q whose standard L-function equals L^*(s, f x g) after removing the ramified and archimedean factors. The first main result of this paper is to answer it in the affirmative, in fact with the base field Q replaced by any number field F. Our proof uses a mixture of converse theorems, base change and descent, and it also appeals to the local regularity properties of Eisenstein series and the scalar products of their truncations. One of the applications of this result is that the space of cusp forms on SL(2) has multiplicity one. Concretely this means the following: If f, g are newforms of holomorphic or Maass type with trivial character such that the squares of the p-th coeficients of f and g are the same at almost all primes p, then g must be a twist of f by a quadratic Dirichlet character.


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