The notion of a tower of Rankin-Selberg integrals was introduced in [G-R]. To recall this notion, let G be a reductive group defined over a global field F . Let G denote the L group of G. Let ρ denote a finite dimensional irreducible representation of G. Given an irreducible generic cuspidal representation of G(A), we let L(π, ρ, s) denote the partial L function associated with π and ρ. Here s ...