P-adic numbers, p-adic analysis, and zeta-functions 58

Neal Koblitz

ISBN 10: 0387902740 / ISBN 13: 9780387902746

Editore: Springer, 1996

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• Titolo: P-adic numbers, p-adic analysis, and zeta-functions 58
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0387902740
• ISBN 13: 9780387902746
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: seconda edizione
• Condizione: As New

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These lecture notes are intended as an introduction to p-adic analysis on the elementary level. For this reason they presuppose as little background as possi­ ble. Besides about three semesters of calculus, I presume some slight exposure to more abstract mathematics, to the extent that the student won't have an adverse reaction to matrices with entries in a field other than the real numbers, field extensions of the rational numbers, or the notion of a continuous map of topolog­ ical spaces. The purpose of this book is twofold: to develop some basic ideas of p-adic analysis, and to present two striking applications which, it is hoped, can be as effective pedagogically as they were historically in stimulating interest in the field. The first of these applications is presented in Chapter II, since it only requires the most elementary properties of Q ; this is Mazur's construction by p means of p-adic integration of the Kubota-Leopoldtp-adic zeta-function, which "p-adically interpolates" the values of the Riemann zeta-function at the negative odd integers. My treatment is based on Mazur's Bourbaki notes (unpublished).

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