Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2017
We give a Rankin–Selberg integral representation for the Spin (degree eight) $L$-function on
$\operatorname{PGSp}_{6}$ that applies to the cuspidal automorphic representations associated to Siegel modular forms. If
$\unicode[STIX]{x1D70B}$ corresponds to a level-one Siegel modular form
$f$ of even weight, and if
$f$ has a nonvanishing maximal Fourier coefficient (defined below), then we deduce the functional equation and finiteness of poles of the completed Spin
$L$-function
$\unicode[STIX]{x1D6EC}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D70B},\text{Spin},s)$ of
$\unicode[STIX]{x1D70B}$.