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A Course in p-adic Analysis

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2000
ISBN
9780387986692, 0387986693
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (6898622 bytes)
Series
Graduate Texts in Mathematics
Edition
1
Pages
457\457
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

Kurt Hensel (1861-1941) discovered the p-adic numbers around the turn of the century. These exotic numbers (or so they appeared at first) are now well-established in the mathematical world and used more and more by physicists as well. This book offers a self-contained presentation of basic p-adic analysis. The author is especially interested in the analytical topics in this field. Some of the features which are not treated in other introductory p-adic analysis texts are topological models of p-adic spaces inside Euclidean space, a construction of spherically complete fields, a p-adic mean value theorem and some consequences, a special case of Hazewinkel's functional equation lemma, a remainder formula for the Mahler expansion, and most importantly a treatment of analytic elements.

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