“…The existence of these classes, in particular, their arithmetic nature and close relation to the theory of L-functions are the core issues of these investigations. There are some results for groups G of small Q-rank other than GL 2 or very specific types of Eisenstein series [12], [8], [24], [30], [32], [33]. In describing in the case of the symplectic group Sp n that part in the cohomology which is attached to relative rank one Eisenstein series this work concerns an algebraic group of an arbitrary Q-rank, the case n = 2 being already treated in [31], [34].…”