Invitation to higher local fields, Part II, section 1: Higher dimensional local fields and L-functions

Abstract

This work describes several first steps in extending Tate-Iwasawa's analytic method to define an L-function in higher dimensions. For generalizing this method the author advocates the usefulness of the classical Riemann-Hecke approach, his adelic complexes together with his generalization of Krichever's correspondence. He analyzes dimension 1 types of functions and discusses properties of the lattice of commensurable classes of subspaces in the adelic space associated to a divisor on an algebraic surface.