Euler Product and Determinant Local -Factor
An -function defined as at unramified primes
An Euler product is a product over primes (or places) of local factors, typically convergent for .
In the letter, given a representation of the -group and Satake parameters , the unramified local factor is
The global -function is , with finitely many "bad primes" omitted or modified.
Remarks
Key point: changing auxiliary choices typically changes only finitely many local factors.