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单词 p-adic numbers
释义
p-adic numbers

Mathematics
  • The p-adic numbers were introduced by Kurt Hensel in 1897 with the aim of applying power series methods to number theory. Here p is a prime number.

    A p-adic integer is a sequence of the form (x0, x1, x2, …) such that xnxn−1 mod pn for each n. Such sequences arise naturally when investigating congruences such as x2c mod pn. A more natural representation of a p-adic integer is as

    i=0aipiwherexn=i=0naipi

    and 0≤ai<p for all i. A p-adic number is then a series of the form

    i=kaipiwith0ai<pforalli,

    where k is any integer (possibly negative). The p-adic numbers then naturally form a field denoted ℚp.

    There is an alternative analytic construction of ℚp. Any non-zero rational number x can be uniquely written as pn(a/b), where neither a nor b is divisible by p. The order |x|p of x is defined to be pn, with the order of 0 being 0, and a metric can be defined on ℚ by d(x,y) =  |x–y|p. The p-adic numbers can then be constructed as the completion of ℚ using this metric.


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