Generative Adversarial Networks, Ian J. Goodfellow, Jean Pouget-Abadie, Mehdi Mirza, Bing Xu, David Warde-Farley, Sherjil Ozair, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio, 2014Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2014)DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1406.2661 - The original scientific article introducing the Generative Adversarial Network framework.
Deep Learning, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, 2016 (MIT Press) - Chapter 20 of this comprehensive textbook provides a detailed explanation of GANs.