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Summary
A complete and accessible introduction to the study of arithmetic differential operators over the p-adic integers.
Contents
Cover; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The p-adic numbers Qp; 2.1 A pragmatic realization of Qp; 2.2 The p-adic integers Zp and their field of fractions; 2.3 The topology of Qp; 2.4 Analytic and algebraic properties of Qp; 2.5 (p − 1)-roots of unity in Qp; 3 Some classical analysis on Qp; 3.1 The Artin-Hasse exponential function; 3.2 The completion of the algebraic closure of Qp; 3.3 Zeta functions; 4 Analytic functions on Zp; 4.1 Strassmann's theorem; 5 Arithmetic differential operators on Zp; 5.1 Multiple primes I.
6 A general view of arithmetic differential operators6.1 Basic algebraic concepts; 6.2 General δp-functions: arithmetic jet spaces; 6.3 The analogue of a δp-linear operators for group schemes; 6.4 Multiple primes II; 7 Analyticity of arithmetic differential operators; 8 Characteristic functions of discs in Zp: p-adic coordinates; 8.1 Characteristic functions of discs of radii 1/p; 8.2 Characteristic functions of discs of radii 1/pn; 9 Characteristic functions of discs in Zp: harmonic arithmetic coordinates; 9.1 A matrix associated to pm.
9.2 Analytic functions and arithmetic differential operators10 Some differences between arithmetic differential operators over Zp and Zurp; References; Index.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-137) and index.
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