In mathematics, the p-adic number system for any prime number p extends the ordinary arithmetic of the rational numbers in a different way from the extension of the rational number system to the real and complex number systems. The extension is achieved by an alternative interpretation of the concept of "closeness" or absolute value. In particular, two p-adic numbers are considered to be close when their difference is divisible by a high power of p: the higher the power, the closer they are. This property enables p-adic numbers to encode congruence information in a way that turns out to have powerful applications in number theory – including, for example, in the famous proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles.[1]
These numbers were first described by Kurt Hensel in 1897,[2] though, with hindsight, some of Ernst Kummer's earlier work can be interpreted as implicitly using p-adic numbers.[note 1] The p-adic numbers were motivated primarily by an attempt to bring the ideas and techniques of power series methods into number theory. Their influence now extends far beyond this. For example, the field of p-adic analysis essentially provides an alternative form of calculus.
More formally, for a given prime p, the field Qp of p-adic numbers is a completion of the rational numbers. The field Qp is also given a topology derived from a metric, which is itself derived from the p-adic order, an alternative valuation on the rational numbers. This metric space is complete in the sense that every Cauchy sequence converges to a point in Qp. This is what allows the development of calculus on Qp, and it is the interaction of this analytic and algebraic structure that gives the p-adic number systems their power and utility.
The p in "p-adic" is a variable and may be replaced with a prime (yielding, for instance, "the 2-adic numbers") or another expression representing a prime number. The "adic" of "p-adic" comes from the ending found in words such as dyadic or triadic.
p-adic expansion of rational numbers
The decimal expansion of a positive rational number is its representation as a series
where each ai is an integer such that 0 ≤ ai < 10. This expansion can be computed by long division of the numerator by the denominator, which is itself based on the following theorem: If r = n/d is a rational number such that 10k ≤ r < 10k + 1, there is an integer a such that 0 < a < 10, and r = a 10k + s, with s < 10k. The decimal expansion is obtained by repeatedly applying this result to the remainder s.
The p-adic expansion of a rational number is defined similarly, but with a different division step. More precisely, given a fixed prime number p, every nonzero rational number r can be uniquely written as r = 10kn/d, where k is a (possibly negative) integer, and n and d are coprime integers both coprime with p. The integer k is the p-adic valuation of r, denoted vp(r), and 10−k is its p-adic absolute value, denoted |r|p (the absolute value is small when the valuation is large). The division step consists of writing
where a is an integer such that 0 ≤ a < 10, and s is either zero, or a rational number such that |s|p < p−k (that is, vp(s) > k). The p-adic expansion of r is the formal power series
obtained by repeating indefinitely the division step on successive remainders.
If r = pkn/1 with n > 0, the process stops eventually with a zero remainder; in this case, the series is completed by trailing terms with a zero coefficient, and is the representation of r in base p with the order of digits reversed.
The existence and the computation of the p-adic expansion of a rational number result of Bézout's identity in the following way. If, as above, r = pkn/d, and d and p are coprime, there exist integers t and u such that td + up = 1. So
Then, the Euclidean division of nt by p gives
with 0 ≤ a < p. This gives the division step as
The uniqueness of the division step and of the whole p-adic expansion is easy: if
one has
and p divides a − a′. From 0 ≤ a, a′ < p one gets −p < a − a′ < p, and thus a = a′.
The p-adic expansion of a rational number is a series that converges to the rational number, if one applies the definition of a convergent series with the p-adic absolute value.
The p-adic expansion of a rational number is eventually periodic. Conversely, a series
with 0 ≤ ai < p converges (for the p-adic absolute value) to a rational number if and only if it is eventually periodic; in this case, the series is the p-adic expansion of that rational number. The proof is similar to that of the similar result for repeating decimals.
p-adic series
In this article, given a prime number p, a p-adic series is a series of the form
where every is a rational number such that the denominator is not divisible by p.
A p-adic series is normalized if each is an integer in the interval So, the p-adic expansion of a rational number is a normalized p-adic series.
The p-adic valuation, or p-adic order of a nonzero p-adic series is the lowest integer i such that The order of the zero series is infinity
Two p-adic series are equivalent if they have the same order k, and if for every integer n ≥ k the difference between their partial sums
has an order greater than n.
For every p-adic series , there is a unique normalized series such that and are equivalent. is the normalization of (The proof is similar to the existence proof of the p-adic expansion of a rational number.)
10-adic numbers
This section is an informal introduction to p-adic numbers, using examples from the ring of 10-adic (decadic) numbers. Although for p-adic numbers p should be a prime, base 10 was chosen to highlight the analogy with decimals. The decadic numbers are generally not used in mathematics: since 10 is not prime or prime power, the decadics are not a field. More formal constructions and properties are given below.
In the standard decimal representation, almost all[note 2] real numbers do not have a terminating decimal representation. For example, 1/3 is represented as a non-terminating decimal as follows
Informally, non-terminating decimals are easily understood, because it is clear that a real number can be approximated to any required degree of precision by a terminating decimal. If two decimal expansions differ only after the 10th decimal place, they are quite close to one another; and if they differ only after the 20th decimal place, they are even closer.
10-adic numbers use a similar non-terminating expansion, but with a different concept of "closeness". Whereas two decimal expansions are close to one another if their difference is a large negative power of 10, two 10-adic expansions are close if their difference is a large positive power of 10. Thus 4739 and 5739, which differ by 103, are close in the 10-adic world, and 72694473 and 82694473 are even closer, differing by 107.
More precisely, every positive rational number r can be uniquely expressed as r ≔ a/b·10d, where a and b are positive integers and gcd(a, b) = 1, gcd(b, 10) = 1, gcd(a, 10) < 10. Let the 10-adic "absolute value"[note 3] of r be
Additionally, we define
Now, taking a/b = 1 and d = 0, 1, 2,... we have
with the consequence that we have
Closeness in any number system is defined by a metric. Using the 10-adic metric the distance between numbers x and y is given by |x − y|10. An interesting consequence of the 10-adic metric (or of a p-adic metric) is that there is no longer a need for the negative sign. (In fact, there is no order relation which is compatible with the ring operations and this metric.) As an example, by examining the following sequence we can see how unsigned 10-adics can get progressively closer and closer to the number −1:
and taking this sequence to its limit, we can deduce the 10-adic expansion of −1
thus
an expansion which clearly is a ten's complement representation.
In this notation, 10-adic expansions can be extended indefinitely to the left, in contrast to decimal expansions, which can be extended indefinitely to the right. Note that this is not the only way to write p-adic numbers – for alternatives see the Notation section below.
More formally, a 10-adic number can be defined as
where each of the ai is a digit taken from the set {0, 1,..., 9} and the initial index n may be positive, negative or 0, but must be finite. From this definition, it is clear that positive integers and positive rational numbers with terminating decimal expansions will have terminating 10-adic expansions that are identical to their decimal expansions. Other numbers may have non-terminating 10-adic expansions.
It is possible to define addition, subtraction, and multiplication on 10-adic numbers in a consistent way, so that the 10-adic numbers form the commutative ring, called Z10.
We can create 10-adic expansions for "negative" numbers[note 4] as follows
and fractions which have non-terminating decimal expansions also have non-terminating 10-adic expansions. For example
Generalizing the last example, we can find a 10-adic expansion with no digits to the right of the decimal point for any rational number a/b such that b is coprime to 10; Euler's theorem guarantees that if b is coprime to 10, then there is an n such that 10n − 1 is a multiple of b. The other rational numbers can be expressed as 10-adic numbers with some digits after the decimal point.
As noted above, 10-adic numbers Z10 have a major drawback. It is possible to find pairs of nonzero 10-adic numbers (which are not rational, thus having an infinite number of digits) whose product is 0.[3][note 5] This means that 10-adic numbers do not always have multiplicative inverses, that is, valid reciprocals, which in turn implies that though 10-adic numbers form a ring they do not form a field, a deficiency that makes them much less useful as an analytical tool. Another way of saying this is that the ring of 10-adic numbers is not an integral domain because they contain zero divisors.[note 5] The reason for this property turns out to be that 10 is a composite number which is not a power of a prime. This problem is simply avoided by using a prime number p or a prime power pn as the base of the number system instead of 10 and indeed for this reason p in p-adic is usually taken to be prime.
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decimal notation10-adic notation fraction original
decimal notation10-adic notation fraction original
decimal notation10-adic notation 1/2 0.5 0.5 5/7 0.714285 4285715 9/10 0.9 0.9 1/3 0.3 67 6/7 0.857142 7142858 1/11 0.09 091 2/3 0.6 34 1/8 0.125 0.125 2/11 0.18 182 1/4 0.25 0.25 3/8 0.375 0.375 3/11 0.27 273 3/4 0.75 0.75 5/8 0.625 0.625 4/11 0.36 364 1/5 0.2 0.2 7/8 0.875 0.875 5/11 0.45 455 2/5 0.4 0.4 1/9 0.1 89 6/11 0.54 546 3/5 0.6 0.6 2/9 0.2 78 7/11 0.63 637 4/5 0.8 0.8 4/9 0.4 56 8/11 0.72 728 1/6 0.16 3.5 5/9 0.5 45 9/11 0.81 819 5/6 0.83 67.5 7/9 0.7 23 10/11 0.90 0910 1/7 0.142857 2857143 8/9 0.8 12 1/12 0.083 6.75 2/7 0.285714 5714286 1/10 0.1 0.1 5/12 0.416 3.75 3/7 0.428571 8571429 3/10 0.3 0.3 7/12 0.583 67.25 4/7 0.571428 1428572 7/10 0.7 0.7 11/12 0.916 34.25
- Remark
As it turns out the ring Z10 is isomorphic to the direct product Z2 × Z5 of the rings defined below for p = 2 and p = 5. As additional result, the property being direct product very simply explains the existence of zero-divisors in Z10. (See also profinite integer.)
p-adic expansions
When dealing with natural numbers, if p is taken to be a fixed prime number, then any positive integer can be written as a base p expansion in the form
where the ai are integers in {0,..., p − 1}.[4] For example, the binary expansion of 35 is 1 ⋅ 25 + 0 ⋅ 24 + 0 ⋅ 23 + 0 ⋅ 22 + 1 ⋅ 21 + 1 ⋅ 20, often written in the shorthand notation 1000112.
The familiar approach to extending this description to the larger domain of the rationals[5][6] (and, ultimately, to the reals) is to use sums of the form:
A definite meaning is given to these sums based on Cauchy sequences, using the absolute value as metric. Thus, for example, 1/3 can be expressed in base 5 as the limit of the sequence 0.1313131313...5. In this formulation, the integers are precisely those numbers for which ai = 0 for all i < 0.
With p-adic numbers, on the other hand, we choose to extend the base p expansions in a different way. Unlike traditional integers, where the magnitude is determined by how far they are from zero, the "size" of p-adic numbers is determined by the p-adic absolute value, where high positive powers of p are relatively small compared to high negative powers of p.
Consider infinite sums of the form:
where k is some (not necessarily positive) integer, and each coefficient ai is an integer such that 0 ≤ ai < p, which can be called a p-adic digit.[7] This defines the p-adic expansions of the p-adic numbers. Those p-adic numbers for which ai = 0 for all i < 0 are also called the p-adic integers, and form a subset of the p-adic numbers commonly denoted Zp.
As opposed to real number expansions which extend to the right as sums of ever smaller, increasingly negative powers of the base p, p-adic numbers may expand to the left forever, a property that can often be true for the p-adic integers. For example, consider the p-adic expansion of 1/3 in base 5. It can be shown to be ...13131325, that is, the limit of the sequence 25, 325, 1325, 31325, 131325, 3131325, 13131325, ... :
Multiplying this infinite sum by 3 in base 5 gives ...00000015. As there are no negative powers of 5 in this expansion of 1/3 (that is, no numbers to the right of the decimal point), we see that 1/3 satisfies the definition of being a p-adic integer in base 5.
More formally, the p-adic expansions can be used to define the field Qp of p-adic numbers while the p-adic integers form a subring of Qp, denoted Zp. (Not to be confused with the ring of integers modulo p which is also sometimes written Zp. To avoid ambiguity, Z/pZ or Z/(p) are often used to represent the integers modulo p.)
While it is possible to use the approach above to define p-adic numbers and explore their properties, just as in the case of real numbers other approaches are generally preferred. Hence we want to define a notion of infinite sum which makes these expressions meaningful, and this is most easily accomplished by the introduction of the p-adic metric. Two different but equivalent solutions to this problem are presented in the Constructions section below.
Notation
There are several different conventions for writing p-adic expansions. So far this article has used a notation for p-adic expansions in which powers of p increase from right to left. With this right-to-left notation the 3-adic expansion of 1/5, for example, is written as
When performing arithmetic in this notation, digits are carried to the left. It is also possible to write p-adic expansions so that the powers of p increase from left to right, and digits are carried to the right. With this left-to-right notation the 3-adic expansion of 1/5 is
p-adic expansions may be written with other sets of digits instead of {0, 1,..., p − 1}. For example, the 3-adic expansion of 1/5 can be written using balanced ternary digits {1, 0, 1} as
In fact any set of p integers which are in distinct residue classes modulo p may be used as p-adic digits. In number theory, Teichmüller representatives are sometimes used as digits.[8]
Constructions
Analytic approach
p = 2 | ← distance = 1 → | ||||||||
← d = 1/2 → | ← d = 1/2 → | ||||||||
‹ d= 1/4 › | ‹ d= 1/4 › | ‹ d= 1/4 › | ‹ d= 1/4 › | ||||||
‹ 1/8› | ‹ 1/8› | ‹ 1/8› | ‹ 1/8› | ‹ 1/8› | ‹ 1/8› | ‹ 1/8› | ‹ 1/8› | ||
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17 | 10001 | J | |||||||
16 | 10000 | J | |||||||
15 | 1111 | L | |||||||
14 | 1110 | L | |||||||
13 | 1101 | L | |||||||
12 | 1100 | L | |||||||
11 | 1011 | L | |||||||
10 | 1010 | L | |||||||
9 | 1001 | L | |||||||
8 | 1000 | L | |||||||
7 | 111 | L | |||||||
6 | 110 | L | |||||||
5 | 101 | L | |||||||
4 | 100 | L | |||||||
3 | 11 | L | |||||||
2 | 10 | L | |||||||
1 | 1 | L | |||||||
0 | 0...000 | L | |||||||
−1 | 1...111 | J | |||||||
−2 | 1...110 | J | |||||||
−3 | 1...101 | J | |||||||
−4 | 1...100 | J | |||||||
Dec | Bin | ················································ | |||||||
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| 2-adic (p = 2) arrangement of integers, from left to right. This shows a hierarchical subdivision pattern common for ultrametric spaces. Points within a distance 1/8 are grouped in one colored strip. A pair of strips within a distance 1/4 has the same chroma, four strips within a distance 1/2 have the same hue. The hue is determined by the least significant bit, the saturation – by the next (21) bit, and the brightness depends on the value of 22 bit. Bits (digit places) which are less significant for the usual metric are more significant for the p-adic distance. |
The real numbers can be defined as equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers; this allows us to, for example, write 1 as 1.000... = 0.999.... The definition of a Cauchy sequence relies on the metric chosen, though, so if we choose a different one, we can construct numbers other than the real numbers. The usual metric which yields the real numbers is called the Euclidean metric.
For a given prime p, we define the p-adic absolute value in Q as follows: for any nonzero rational number x, there is a unique integer n allowing us to write x = pn( a/b), where neither of the integers a and b is divisible by p. Unless the numerator or denominator of x in lowest terms contains p as a factor, n will be 0. Now define |x|p = p−n. We also define |0|p = 0.
For example with x = 63/550 = 2−1 ⋅ 32 ⋅ 5−2 ⋅ 71 ⋅ 11−1
This definition of |x|p has the effect that high powers of p become "small". By the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, for a given nonzero rational number x there is a unique finite set of distinct primes p1,..., pr and a corresponding sequence of nonzero integers a1,..., ar such that:
It then follows that
for all 1 ≤ i ≤ r, and |x|p = 1 for any other prime p ∉ {p1,..., pr}.
The p-adic absolute value defines a metric dp on Q by setting
The field Qp of p-adic numbers can then be defined as the completion of the metric space (Q, dp); its elements are equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences, where two sequences are called equivalent if their difference converges to zero. In this way, we obtain a complete metric space which is also a field and contains Q. With this absolute value, the field Qp is a local field.
It can be shown that in Qp, every element x may be written in a unique way as
where k is some integer such that ak ≠ 0 and each ai is in {0,..., p − 1}. This series converges to x with respect to the metric dp. The p-adic integers Zp are the elements where k is nonnegative. Consequently, Qp is isomorphic to Z[ 1/p] + Zp.[9]
Ostrowski's theorem states that each absolute value on Q is equivalent either to the Euclidean absolute value, the trivial absolute value, or to one of the p-adic absolute values for some prime p. Each absolute value (or metric) leads to a different completion of Q. (With the trivial absolute value, Q is already complete.)
Algebraic approach
In the algebraic approach, we first define the ring of p-adic integers, and then construct the field of fractions of this ring to get the field of p-adic numbers.
We start with the inverse limit of the rings Z/pnZ (see modular arithmetic): a p-adic integer m is then a sequence (an)n≥1 such that an is in Z/pnZ, and if n ≤ l, then an ≡ al (mod pn).
Every natural number m defines such a sequence (an) by an ≡ m (mod pn) and can therefore be regarded as a p-adic integer. For example, in this case 35 as a 2-adic integer would be written as the sequence (1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 35, 35, 35,...).
The operators of the ring amount to pointwise addition and multiplication of such sequences. This is well defined because addition and multiplication commute with the "mod" operator; see modular arithmetic.
Moreover, every sequence (an)n ≥ 1 with the first element a1 ≢ 0 (mod p) has a multiplicative inverse. In that case, for every n, an and p are coprime, and so an and pn are relatively prime. Therefore, each an has an inverse modulo pn, and the sequence of these inverses, (bn), is the sought inverse of (an). For example, consider the p-adic integer corresponding to the natural number 7; as a 2-adic number, it would be written (1, 3, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7,...). This object's inverse would be written as an ever-increasing sequence that begins (1, 3, 7, 7, 23, 55, 55, 183, 439, 439, 1463,...). Naturally, this 2-adic integer has no corresponding natural number.
Every such sequence can alternatively be written as a series. For instance, in the 3-adics, the sequence (2, 8, 8, 35, 35,...) can be written as 2 + 2 ⋅ 3 + 0 ⋅ 32 + 1 ⋅ 33 + 0 ⋅ 34 + ... The partial sums of this latter series are the elements of the given sequence.
The ring of p-adic integers has no zero divisors, so we can take the field of fractions to get the field Qp of p-adic numbers. Note that in this field of fractions, every noninteger p-adic number can be uniquely written as p−nu with a natural number n and a unit u in the p-adic integers. This means that
Note that S−1 A, where
is a multiplicative subset (contains the unit and closed under multiplication) of a commutative ring (with unit) A, is an algebraic construction called the ring of fractions or localization of A by S.
Properties
Cardinality
Zp is the inverse limit of the finite rings Z/pkZ, which is uncountable[10]—in fact, has the cardinality of the continuum. Accordingly, the field Qp is uncountable. The endomorphism ring of the Prüfer p-group of rank n, denoted Z(p∞)n, is the ring of n × n matrices over Zp; this is sometimes referred to as the Tate module.
The number of p-adic numbers with terminating p-adic representations is countably infinite. And, if the standard digits {0,..., p − 1} are taken, their value and representation coincides in Zp and R.
Topology
Define a topology on Zp by taking as a basis of open sets all sets of the form
where a is a nonnegative integer and n is an integer in [1, pa]. For example, in the dyadic integers, U1(1) is the set of odd numbers. Ua(n) is the set of all p-adic integers whose difference from n has p-adic absolute value less than p1 − a. Then Zp is a compactification of Z, under the derived topology (it is not a compactification of Z with its usual discrete topology). The relative topology on Z as a subset of Zp is called the p-adic topology on Z.
The topology of Zp is that of a Cantor set C.[11] For instance, we can make a continuous one-to-one mapping between the dyadic integers and the Cantor set expressed in base 3 by
where en = 2dn.
The topology of Qp is that of a Cantor set minus any point.[citation needed] In particular, Zp is compact while Qp is not; it is only locally compact. As metric spaces, both Zp and Qp are complete.[12]
Metric completions and algebraic closures
Qp contains Q and is a field of characteristic 0. This field cannot be turned into an ordered field.
R has only a single proper algebraic extension: C; in other words, this quadratic extension is already algebraically closed. By contrast, the algebraic closure of Qp, denoted Qp has infinite degree,[13] that is, Qp has infinitely many inequivalent algebraic extensions. Also contrasting the case of real numbers, although there is a unique extension of the p-adic valuation to Qp, the latter is not (metrically) complete.[14][15] Its (metric) completion is called Cp or Ωp.[15][16] Here an end is reached, as Cp is algebraically closed.[15][17] However unlike C this field is not locally compact.[16]
Cp and C are isomorphic as rings, so we may regard Cp as C endowed with an exotic metric. The proof of existence of such a field isomorphism relies on the axiom of choice, and does not provide an explicit example of such an isomorphism (that is, it is not constructive).
If K is a finite Galois extension of Qp, the Galois group Gal(K/Qp) is solvable. Thus, the Galois group Gal(Qp/Qp) is prosolvable.
Multiplicative group of Qp
Qp contains the nth cyclotomic field (n > 2) if and only if n divides p − 1.[18] For instance, the nth cyclotomic field is a subfield of Q13 if and only if n = 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 12. In particular, there is no multiplicative p-torsion in Qp, if p > 2. Also, −1 is the only nontrivial torsion element in Q2.
Given a natural number k, the index of the multiplicative group of the kth powers of the nonzero elements of Qp in Q×
p is finite.
The number e, defined as the sum of reciprocals of factorials, is not a member of any p-adic field; but ep ∈ Qp (p ≠ 2). For p = 2 one must take at least the fourth power.[19] (Thus a number with similar properties to e — namely a pth root of ep — is a member of Qp for all p.)
Rational arithmetic
Eric Hehner and Nigel Horspool proposed in 1979 the use of a p-adic representation for rational numbers on computers[20] called quote notation. The primary advantage of such a representation is that addition, subtraction, and multiplication can be done in a straightforward manner analogous to similar methods for binary integers; and division is even simpler, resembling multiplication. However, it has the disadvantage that representations can be much larger than simply storing the numerator and denominator in binary (for more details see Quote notation § Space).
The reals and the p-adic numbers are the completions of the rationals; it is also possible to complete other fields, for instance general algebraic number fields, in an analogous way. This will be described now.
Suppose D is a Dedekind domain and E is its field of fractions. Pick a nonzero prime ideal P of D. If x is a nonzero element of E, then xD is a fractional ideal and can be uniquely factored as a product of positive and negative powers of nonzero prime ideals of D. We write ordP(x) for the exponent of P in this factorization, and for any choice of number c > 1 we can set
Completing with respect to this absolute value | |P yields a field EP, the proper generalization of the field of p-adic numbers to this setting. The choice of c does not change the completion (different choices yield the same concept of Cauchy sequence, so the same completion). It is convenient, when the residue field D/P is finite, to take for c the size of D/P.
For example, when E is a number field, Ostrowski's theorem says that every nontrivial non-Archimedean absolute value on E arises as some | |P. The remaining nontrivial absolute values on E arise from the different embeddings of E into the real or complex numbers. (In fact, the non-Archimedean absolute values can be considered as simply the different embeddings of E into the fields Cp, thus putting the description of all the nontrivial absolute values of a number field on a common footing.)
Often, one needs to simultaneously keep track of all the abovementioned completions when E is a number field (or more generally a global field), which are seen as encoding "local" information. This is accomplished by adele rings and idele groups.
p-adic integers can be extended to p-adic solenoids Tp. There's a map from Tp to the cirle ring whose fibers are the p-adic integers Zp, in analogy to how there is a map from R to the circle ring whose fibers are Z.
Local–global principle
Helmut Hasse's local–global principle is said to hold for an equation if it can be solved over the rational numbers if and only if it can be solved over the real numbers and over the p-adic numbers for every prime p. This principle holds, for example, for equations given by quadratic forms, but fails for higher polynomials in several indeterminates.
See also
- 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + ...
- k-adic notation
- C-minimal theory
- Hensel's lemma
- Locally compact field
- Mahler's theorem
- p-adic quantum mechanics
- Profinite integer
- Volkenborn integral
Footnotes
Notes
- ^ Translator's introduction, page 35: "Indeed, with hindsight it becomes apparent that a discrete valuation is behind Kummer's concept of ideal numbers."(Dedekind & Weber 2012, p. 35)
- ^ The number of real numbers with terminating decimal representations is countably infinite, while the number of real numbers without such a representation is uncountably infinite.
- ^ The so defined function is not really an absolute value, because the requirement of multiplicativity is violated:
- ^ More precisely: additively inverted numbers, because there is no order relation in the 10-adics, so there are no numbers less than zero.
- ^ a b For n ∈ N0 let xn ≔ 65n and yn ≔ 52n. We have 62 ≡ 6 mod 10 and 52 ≡ 5 mod 10. Now,
Citations
- ^ (Gouvêa 1994, pp. 203–222)
- ^ (Hensel 1897)
- ^ Gérard Michon's article
- ^ (Kelley 2008, pp. 22–25)
- ^ Bogomolny, Alexander. "p-adic Expansions".
- ^ Koç, Çetin. "A Tutorial on p-adic Arithmetic" (PDF).
- ^ Madore, David. "A first introduction to p-adic numbers" (PDF).
- ^ (Hazewinkel 2009, p. 342)
- ^ Bump, Daniel (1998). Automorphic Forms and Representations. Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics. 55. Cambridge University Press. p. 277. ISBN 9780521658188.
- ^ (Robert 2000, Chapter 1 Section 1.1)
- ^ (Robert 2000, Chapter 1 Section 2.3)
- ^ (Gouvêa 1997, Corollary 3.3.8)
- ^ (Gouvêa 1997, Corollary 5.3.10)
- ^ (Gouvêa 1997, Theorem 5.7.4)
- ^ a b c (Cassels 1986, p. 149)
- ^ a b (Koblitz 1980, p. 13)
- ^ (Gouvêa 1997, Proposition 5.7.8)
- ^ (Gouvêa 1997, Proposition 3.4.2)
- ^ (Robert 2000, Section 4.1)
- ^ (Hehner & Horspool 1979, pp. 124–134)
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- Hehner, Eric C. R.; Horspool, R. Nigel (1979), "A new representation of the rational numbers for fast easy arithmetic", SIAM Journal on Computing, 8 (2): 124–134, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.64.7714, doi:10.1137/0208011
- Hensel, Kurt (1897), "Über eine neue Begründung der Theorie der algebraischen Zahlen", Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung, 6 (3): 83–88
- Kelley, John L. (2008) [1955], General Topology, New York: Ishi Press, ISBN 978-0-923891-55-8
- Koblitz, Neal (1980), p-adic analysis: a short course on recent work, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, 46, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-28060-5, Zbl 0439.12011
- Robert, Alain M. (2000), A Course in p-adic Analysis, Springer, ISBN 0-387-98669-3
Further reading
- Bachman, George (1964), Introduction to p-adic Numbers and Valuation Theory, Academic Press, ISBN 0-12-070268-1
- Borevich, Z. I.; Shafarevich, I. R. (1986), Number Theory, Pure and Applied Mathematics, 20, Boston, MA: Academic Press, ISBN 978-0-12-117851-2, MR 0195803
- Koblitz, Neal (1984), p-adic Numbers, p-adic Analysis, and Zeta-Functions, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 58 (2nd ed.), Springer, ISBN 0-387-96017-1
- Mahler, Kurt (1981), p-adic numbers and their functions, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, 76 (2nd ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-23102-7, Zbl 0444.12013
- Steen, Lynn Arthur (1978), Counterexamples in Topology, Dover, ISBN 0-486-68735-X
External links
- Weisstein, Eric W. "p-adic Number". MathWorld.
- p-adic number at Springer On-line Encyclopaedia of Mathematics
- Completion of Algebraic Closure – on-line lecture notes by Brian Conrad
- An Introduction to p-adic Numbers and p-adic Analysis - on-line lecture notes by Andrew Baker, 2007
- Efficient p-adic arithmetic (slides)
- Introduction to p-adic numbers
- Houston-Edwards, Kelsey (October 19, 2020), An Infinite Universe of Number Systems, Quanta Magazine