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P-adic analysis : a short course on recent work /

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 f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Koblitz, Neal, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Colección:London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 46.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (163 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-160) and index.
ISBN:9781107361072
1107361079
9780511526107
0511526105
ISSN:0076-0552