Appears in collection : Representations of p-adic reductive groups and applications / Représentations des groupes réductifs p-adiques et applications

This is a joint work with J. Cogdell and T.-L. Tsai. I will report on the progress made in proving the equality of Artin epsilon factors for exterior and symmetric square L-functions with those on the representation theoretic side through the local Langlands correspondence. The equality for L-functions has already been established by Henniart. I will show how the equality can be proved if one has the stability of these factors under highly ramified twists for supercuspidal representations. I will then discuss the stability question for supercuspidals by discussing how it can be deduced from a generalization of germ expansions of Jacquet and Ye from Bessel functions to certain partial Bessel functions. I will elaborate by explaining the stability in the case of GL(2) through general lemmas proved so far.