Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2016
Let (G, V) be an irreducible prehomogeneous vector space defined over a number field k, P ∈ k[V] a relative invariant polynomial, and χ a rational character of G such that . For , let Gx be the stabilizer of x, and the connected component of 1 of Gx. We define L0 to be the set of such that does not have a non-trivial rational character. Then we define the zeta function for (G, Y) by the following integral
where Φ is a Schwartz-Bruhat function, s is a complex variable, and dg” is an invariant measure.