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HYPERTRANSCENDENCE OF
$L$-FUNCTIONS FOR
$\text{GL}_{m}(\mathbb{A}_{\mathbb{Q}})$
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2015
Abstract
We generalise a result of Hilbert which asserts that the Riemann zeta-function ${\it\zeta}(s)$ is hypertranscendental over
$\mathbb{C}(s)$. Let
${\it\pi}$ be any irreducible cuspidal automorphic representation of
$\text{GL}_{m}(\mathbb{A}_{\mathbb{Q}})$ with unitary central character. We establish a certain type of functional difference–differential independence for the associated
$L$-function
$L(s,{\it\pi})$. This result implies algebraic difference–differential independence of
$L(s,{\it\pi})$ over
$\mathbb{C}(s)$ (and more strongly, over a certain field
${\mathcal{F}}_{s}$ which contains
$\mathbb{C}(s)$). In particular,
$L(s,{\it\pi})$ is hypertranscendental over
$\mathbb{C}(s)$. We also extend a result of Ostrowski on the hypertranscendence of ordinary Dirichlet series.
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