Abstract
By work of John Tate we can associate an epsilon factor with every multiplicative character of a local field.
In this paper, we determine the explicit signs of the epsilon factors for symplectic type characters of
Funding source: Israel Science Foundation
Award Identifier / Grant number: 1676/17
Funding statement: This research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (grant no. 1676/17).
Acknowledgements
I express my sincere gratitude to E.-W. Zink for his valuable comments on the paper. I also extend my gratitude to the referee for his/her comments for the improvement of the paper.
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