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Subgroup of p-adic units

Let $\left(\widehat{\mathbb Z}\right)^\times=\prod_p{\mathbb Z}_p^\times$ be the unit group of the ring $\widehat{\mathbb{Z}}$, which is the profinite completion of $\mathbb Z$. We give it the product ...
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Topological generators for $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbf{Z}_p)$

$\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}$ Let $p>3$ and $G$ be an open subgroup of the special linear group $\SL_2(\mathbf{Z}_p)$ over the ring $\mathbf{Z}_p$ of $p$-adic integers. Suppose that $G$ is ...
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Projective limit of copies of same group w.r.t. some fixed endomorphism

In our study of automorphism groups of transcendental field extensions, we have encountered the situation where we have a group $F$ together with an endomorphism $\alpha \colon F \to F$, resulting in ...
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The Unit Group of $\mathbb{Z}_p$

Let $\mathbb{Z}_p$ the ring of $p$-adic numbers. It's known that the multiplicative unit group $\mathbb{Z}_p ^\times$ can be set theoretically described as $\bigcup _{1 \le a \le p-1} a+ p\mathbb{Z}_p$...
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