Functional equation (L-function)

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Functional equation" L-function – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

In mathematics, the L-functions of number theory are expected to have several characteristic properties, one of which is that they satisfy certain functional equations. There is an elaborate theory of what these equations should be, much of which is still conjectural.