#11631: L-series attached to cusp forms are broken
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   Reporter:  was            |          Owner:  was       
       Type:  defect         |         Status:  new       
   Priority:  major          |      Milestone:  sage-4.7.2
  Component:  number theory  |       Keywords:            
Work_issues:                 |       Upstream:  N/A       
   Reviewer:                 |         Author:            
     Merged:                 |   Dependencies:            
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 {{{
 sage: C = CuspForms(43,2)
 sage: N = C.newforms('a')
 sage: f = N[1]
 sage: L = f.cuspform_lseries()
 Boom!
 }}}

 There are two issues:

   (1) the code doesn't work at all when the degree of the form is > 1,
 which is the main interesting case,

   (2) the name "cuspform_lseries" is bad, since f is already a cuspform,
 and we use the name "lseries" in all other places (e.g., elliptic curves,
 abelian varieties), so it is hard to find.  In fact, I didn't even think
 to look for cuspform_lseries, instead only finding this via lots of
 grepping and reading source code.

 So to fix this issue, I think (1) the bug should get fixed, and (2) the
 name should be changed (actually *deprecate* the old name as explained in
 the developers guide and introduce the name lseries).

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11631>
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