Questions tagged [p-adic-numbers]
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
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Volume of a double class of a parahoric subgroup
Let $F$ be a non-archimedean local field with residue field $F_q$. Let $G$ be the group of $F$-rational points of a connected reductive group defined and split over $F$. Fix a maximal split torus $T$ ...
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Jacobson radical of a tensor product
Let $R$ be a commutative ring and $A_1$, $A_2$ be $R$-algebras. Is there any general mean to compute the Jacobson radical of the tensor product $A_1\otimes_R A_2$ in terms of ${\rm Rad}(A_i )$, $i=1,2$...
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What is $\mathbb{Q}_1$, the "field of $1$-adic numbers"?
(Disclaimer: I'm totally ignorant about $\mathbb{F}_1$ theory)
There are now (several) working definitions of the "field with one element" $\mathbb{F}_1$ (not literally a field, of course), and ...
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Inverse limit of $p^n$-torsion abelian groups
Let $p$ be a prime and let $\{A_n\}_{n > 0}$ be an inverse limit of abelian groups such that $A_n$ is $p^n$-torsion with $A_n/p^{n - 1} \cong A_{n - 1}$ (these isomorphisms are part of the data). ...
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Decomposition of $\widehat{k^{\times}}$ occuring in local class field theory
Let $k$ be a finite extension of $\mathbb{Q}_p$ very often we use the isomorphism that $Gal(\overline{k}/k)^{ab} \simeq \hat{(k^{\times})}$ given by local class field theory.
My question would be do ...
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On an isomorphism between $p$-adic power series and an inverse limit
Let $K$ be an extension field of $\mathbb{Q}_p$, let $O$ be the ring of integers of $K$, and let $P$ be the maximal ideal of $O$.
If $K$ is a finite extension of $\mathbb{Q}_p$, there is the well-...
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Kummer congruences for totally real number fields
There is a generalization of the Kummer congruences to totally real number fields with characters due to Deligne-Ribet. For example, see the exposition here, more precisely see Theorem 2.1.
What is ...
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Some questions on the $p$-adic properties of special $L$-values
Warning: Some naive, speculative questions from a total non expert.
Let $\rho$ be a p-adic representation of the Galois group $Gal(\overline K/K)$ for a number field $K$. We can consider the Artin L-...
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Structure of modules over Iwasawa algebra $\mathbb{Z}_p[[T]]$ when taken mod $p$
Let $A \in M_n(\mathbb{Z}_p)$ be a nonsingular matrix which is nilpotent mod $p$, so $A^r \in pM_n(\mathbb{Z}_p)$ for some $r$. Then $\mathbb{Z}_p[[T]]$ acts on $\mathbb{Z}_p^n$ with $T$ acting by $A$....
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Does a countably generated $\mathbb{Q}$-algebra inject into some $p$-adic field?
Let $K$ be a subfield of $\mathbb{C}$. If $K$ is finitely generated over $\mathbb{Q}$, then $K$ injects into $\mathbb{Q}_p$ for some $p$.
Assume that $K$ is countably generated, i.e., $K= \...
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Is there a better proof for this than using the 10-adic numbers?
Here are two somewhat strange sums using the shifted decimal forms of the powers of $3.$
$\begin{equation*}\begin{array}{ccccccc}
&1&&&&&& \\
&&3&&&&...
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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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Specifying cokernels of all powers of $p$-adic matrix
Given a matrix $A \in M_d(\mathbb{Z}_p)$ (with nonzero determinant), viewed as a map $\mathbb{Z}_p^d \to \mathbb{Z}_p^d$, I am interested in the sequence of abelian $p$-groups $\{coker(A^n)\}_{n \geq ...
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Mori: p-adic and real hemispheres of the mathematical universe?
I recall having read, some time ago, a beautiful and poetic opening of an article (or was it a book?). From memory, it was by Shigefumi Mori, and talked about the (mathematical) universe consisting of ...
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Inverse of reduction mod $p$ functor?
I have a very general, and possibly not very precisely stated question, which comes up quite often in my work, and I would be very happy to be able to address. To my dismay, I only have some very ...
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Nick Katz observation: "the rationality of the zeta function!"
In the proceedings "Algebraic Geometry - Arcata 1974" edited by R. Hartshorne there is an article by Nick Katz called "$p$-adic $L$-functions via moduli of elliptic curves". He starts by recalling $p$-...
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Zero digits of a p-adic algebraic number
This question might be too simple and I just don't see something very obvious, so I apologize in advance if that is so.
Let $p$ be a prime number and let $\mathbb Z_p$ denote the ring of $p$-adic ...
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Relation between valuation of p-adic regulator of totally real field and its finite p-unramified abelian extensions
For each prime number $p$ and number field $k$, there exists at least one extension $k_{\infty}/k$ with Galois group isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}_p$, the cyclotomic $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extension. If $k_p/k$ ...
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Hilbert symbols vanishing
Let $p$ be an odd prime, and let $E/\mathbb{Q}_p$ be a finite extension that contains a primitive $p$-th root of unity $\zeta_p$ but not a primitve $p^2$-th root of unity $\zeta_{p^2}$. Let $a,b \in E^...
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lowest degree of polynomial that removes the first digit of an integer in base p
Let $p$ be an odd prime and $n \geq 2$.
(1) Does there exist an integer-coefficient polynomial $f$ such that $f(x) = x - (x \bmod p)$ for all $x \in \mathbb{Z}/p^n \mathbb{Z}$? The polynomial ...
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Completing vs Extending a field
Given a field and a metric on it, consider the goal of completing it and extending it in order to get an algebraicly closed and complete field.
How should one proceed? Should one first complete it ...
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Cardinality of ${\mathbb{C}_p}$ [closed]
I know, that field ${\mathbb{Q}_p}$ (field of p-adic numbers) has the same cardinality as $\mathbb{C}$. Taking algebraic closure doesn't change the cardinality of infinite field, so cardinality $\...
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Only finitely many values of the symmetric functions of $1/1,1/2,\ldots,1/n$ are $2$-adic integers (?)
For integers $n \geq k \geq 1$ let
$$H(n,k) := \sum_{1 \leq i_1 < \cdots < i_k \leq n} \frac1{i_1 \cdots i_k}$$
be the $k$-th elementary symmetric function of $\tfrac1{1},\tfrac1{2}, \ldots, \...
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$p$-adic order of Pochhammer k-symbol
I am with the following problem.
There is a closed formula or some lower bound for the $p$-adic valuation of the product $\prod_{k=1}^m(a+k\ell)$ (Pochhammer symbol)? where $a$ and $\ell$ are ...
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p-adic analogue of self-adjoint operator
Consider the very well-known result that any Hermitian matrix over $\mathbb{C}$, say $T$, admits a decomposition $T = UDU^*$ where $U$ is unitary and $D$ is diagonal with real entries. I am looking ...
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Transcendence of the $p$-adic number $\sum_{n\ge0}a^{2^n}$
Let $p$ a prime number and $a\in\overline{\mathbb Q}\subset\mathbb C_p$ be an algebraic $p$-adic number such that $|a|_p<1$.
Is the number $s_a=\sum_{n\ge0}a^{2^n}$ transcendental over $\mathbb ...
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p-adic expansion for elements in algebraic closure of p-adic numbers
In the following I will describe a proposal for the p-adic expansion of the elements of the algebraic closure $\overline{\mathbb{Q}_p}$ of $\mathbb{Q}_p$. My question is if this "conjecture" has been ...
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A quantitative version of Hensel's Lemma
I've been reading some papers on Igusa zeta functions, and they seem to be implicitly using a "quantitative version" of Hensel's Lemma, which also asserts the number of lifts of a $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{...
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convergent series representation for p-adic complex numbers
The field $\mathbb{C}_p$ of $p$-adic complex numbers is the completion of the algebraic closure of $\mathbb{Q}_p$ with the corresponding extension of the usual non-Archimedean valuation $|\;\;|_p$.
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Linear independence of p-adic logarithms (analog of Baker's theorem)
We have the following theorem of Baker:
Theorem 1. Let $\alpha_1, \ldots, \alpha_m \in \mathbb{C}$ be algebraic numbers $\neq 0, 1$ such that $\log \alpha_1, \ldots, \log \alpha_m$ are linearly ...
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Does anyone know anything about the 2-valuation of the discriminant of a polynomial?
Take a random polynomial $f$ with integer coefficients (e.g., choose coefficients between $1$ to $B$ of a fixed degree $n$ and let $B$ tend to $\infty$). Using computer we noted that the 2-valuation ...
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What is the $p$-adic Langlands conjecture for $\mathbf{GL}_1$?
In the Boston conference on Fermat's Last Theorem (Summer 1995), Barry Mazur said (around 15m into the video) about class field theory that
If you are a number-theorist and you want to cheer ...
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Characterizing rational functions on $\mathbb{Q}$ in terms of smooth extensions to $\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{Q}_p$
Consider a function $f$ from a cofinite subset of $\mathbb{Q}$ to $\mathbb{Q}$. As established here and here $f$ extending to a smooth function on a cofinite subset of $\mathbb{R}$ is not sufficient ...
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2-adic valuation of odd harmonic sums
(This question is cross-posted on math.stackexchange)
I'm playing with p-adic valuations, and find that the odd harmonic sums, $\tilde{H}_k=\sum_{i=1}^{k}\frac{1}{2i-1}$, has 2-adic valuation $||k^2||...
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Unexpected isomorphisms between "unrelated fields"
I read in the post Why worry about the Axiom of Choice ? that the existence of isomorphisms between $\overline{\mathbb{Q}_p}$, $p$ any prime, and $\mathbb{C}$, makes some worry about the Axiom of ...
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null infinite product in the p-adic setting
Let $p$ be a prime, $\mathbb C_p$ be the completion of a algebraic closure of $\mathbb Q_p$ and $(u_n)_{n\in\mathbb N}$ be a sequence of $\mathbb C_p$ converging towards $0$. Suppose that for all $n\...
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Relative Leopoldt defect
Let F be a totally real number field such that the Leopoldt conjecture holds at a prime number $p$ and $M$ be a quadratic totally real extension of $F$.
Is there a bound of the Leopoldt defect of $M$ ...
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A $p$-adic sum of reciprocals of powers
Let $p$ be a prime number and $k\geq 2$ an even integer. Consider the following $p$-adic integer:
$$
S_{p,k} := \lim_{r\to+\infty} \sum_{a=1}^{p^r} \big(\frac{p^r}{a}\big)^k
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Convergence is easy to ...
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A multidimensional version of Hensel's lemma? (for more than one polynomial)
The classical Hensel's lemma is stated as follows: Let $f(x) \in \mathbb{Z}_p[x]$ and $a \in \mathbb{Z}_p$ satisfy
$$
|f(a)|_p < | f'(a) |_p^2.
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Then there is a unique $\alpha \in \mathbb{Z}_p$...
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Class field theory, Ideles class
Let $H$ be a totally complex Galois extension of $\mathbb{Q}$ and $g:G_H \rightarrow \bar{\mathbb{Q}}_p$ be a continuous morphism. By class field thoery we have $\mathrm{Hom}(G_H, \bar{\mathbb{Q}}_p)\...
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Choice of digits for extensions of $\mathbb{Q}_p$
I am interested in writing (in base $p$) elements of the maximal unramified extension $\mathbb{Q}_p^{\mathrm{unr}}$ of $\mathbb{Q}_p$, or (its completion) the field $\mathrm{W}(\mathbb{F}_p^{\mathrm{...
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Carlitz factorials and Euler-like series
Let $q$ be a power of a prime $p$. For every $i\in\mathbb N$, one denotes $D_i=\prod_{\substack{h\in\mathbb F_q[T]\text{ monic}\\\deg h=i}}\limits h$. For $n\in\mathbb N$, write $$n=n_0+n_1q+\cdots+...
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Tube of a mod p point on a smooth Z_(p)-scheme
Let $R$ be a smooth, integral, finite-type $\mathbb{Z}_{(p)}$-algebra of relative dimension $n$ and $\overline{f} \colon R \to \mathbb{F}_p$. Then Hensel's lemma tells us that this lifts to a map $R \...
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Uniformizer for splitting field of p^{1/p^n} over p-adics
Does anyone know an explicit uniformizer for $\mathbf{Q}_p(\zeta_{p^n}, p^{\frac{1}{p^n}}) / \mathbf{Q}_p$? I was reading the question "adding an n-th root to Q_p" where dke mentions this question but ...
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Rings that inject in all p-adic integers
Denote $p$ a prime number and $\mathbb Z _p$ the ring of $p$-adic integers.
We have a canonical injective ring homomorphism $:\mathbb Z \rightarrow \mathbb Z_p$ for all $p$. But $\mathbb Z$ is not the ...
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Lemma in Scholze-Weinstein
In the paper "Moduli of $p$-divisible groups" by Scholze and Weinstein (see http://math.bu.edu/people/jsweinst/Moduli/Moduli.pdf), one finds the following claim in Lemma 5.2.7:
Lemma: Let $K$ be a ...
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$p$-adic orthogonal groups in four variables
Let $p>2$ be prime. By the classification of quadratic forms, there are $8$ pairwise non-equivalent isotropic orthogonal groups in $4$ variables. Is there a concrete classification of orthogonal ...
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Transcendence of a ratio of p-adic logarithms
Let $p, \ell_1, \ell_2$ be distinct prime numbers, and $x_1, x_2 \in \overline{\mathbf{Q}}^\times$.
If
$$ \frac{\log_p x_1}{\log_p \ell_1} = \frac{\log_p x_2}{\log_p \ell_2}, $$
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Name of some commutative ring akin to $p$-adics
I need help in identifying the naming convention of some commutative ring described below.
Let $p$ be a prime, let $k$ be a positive integer, and let $$\textbf{e} = (e_0,\ldots,e_{k-1})$$ be a list ...
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What is the value of $p$-adic $\zeta$-function at positive integer point?
$p$-adic zeta function is a $p$-adic interpolation of the Riemann $\zeta$-function for the values $\zeta(1−k)$, $k\ge 1$ (see $p$-adic Numbers, $p$-adic Analysis, and Zeta-Functions by Neal Koblitz) ...
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