A remark on zeta functions

In the adelic definition of the zeta function by Tate and Iwasawa, especially in the form given by Weil, one uses all Schwartz-Bruhat functions as "test functions"; we have found that such an adelic zeta function relative to Q contains the Dedekind zeta function of any finite normal extension of Q and that the normality assumption can be removed if Artin's conjecture is true. Introduction. We shall first review the definition of the zeta distribution associated with a number field K: let AK resp. A' denote the adele resp. idele groups of K, d Xx a Haar measure on A', and S (AK) the Schwartz-Bruhat space of the locally compact additive group AK; the topological dual S (AK)' of S (AK) is then the space of tempered distributions on AK. Let {xl denote the modulus of an idele x; then