P-Adic Analysis

A Short Course on Recent Work
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-521-28060-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 46, 167 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

Reihe: London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series

This introduction to recent work in p-adic analysis and number theory will make accessible to a relatively general audience the efforts of a number of mathematicians over the last five years. After reviewing the basics (the construction of p-adic numbers and the p-adic analog of the complex number field, power series and Newton polygons), the author develops the properties of p-adic Dirichlet L-series using p-adic measures and integration. p-adic gamma functions are introduced, and their relationship to L-series is explored. Analogies with the corresponding complex analytic case are stressed. Then a formula for Gauss sums in terms of the p-adic gamma function is proved using the cohomology of Fermat and Artin-Schreier curves. Graduate students and research workers in number theory, algebraic geometry and parts of algebra and analysis will welcome this account of current research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koblitz, Neal

Cassels, J. W. S.

Hitchin, N. J.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. Basics; 2. p-adic functions, l-functions and r-functions; 3. Gauss sums and the p-adic gamma function; 4. p-adic regulators; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.