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Algebraic structures on non-Archimedean Urysohn universal metric spaces

Metric Geometry 2026-07-14 v1 General Topology Logic Rings and Algebras

Abstract

We investigate valued-field structures on Urysohn universal ultrametric spaces. We introduce pp-adic Levi--Civita fields as subfields of pp-adic Hahn fields and treat them together with ordinary Levi--Civita fields. For a subgroup GG of R\mathbb{R} containing Z\mathbb{Z} and a countably infinite perfect field kk, the corresponding Levi--Civita valued field is isometric to the RR-Urysohn universal ultrametric space, where R={0}{ηggG}R=\{0\}\cup\{\eta^{-g}\mid g\in G\}. Thus these spaces admit field structures extending prescribed prime valued fields, including Q\mathbb{Q} with the trivial valuation and the pp-adic fields Qp\mathbb{Q}_{p}. We also prove that complete valued fields with infinite residue fields are haloed, and hence universal for separable ultrametric spaces with corresponding distance sets. In the separable case, such a valued field is itself isometric to the corresponding Urysohn space. Examples include Cp\mathbb{C}_{p}, the completion of the maximal unramified extension of Qp\mathbb{Q}_{p}, Laurent series fields, and completions of their algebraic closures. Finally, for a countably infinite perfect residue field, the corresponding full Hahn-type valued field is a Urysohn universal ultrametric space exactly when its value group is order-isomorphic to Z\mathbb{Z}.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.12528,
  title  = {Algebraic structures on non-Archimedean Urysohn universal metric spaces},
  author = {Yoshito Ishiki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.12528},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

22 pages. This paper is a revised and expanded version of the latter part of the first version of arXiv:2309.06704v1