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On commutative nonarchimedean Banach fields

Number Theory 2019-08-30 v7

Abstract

We study the problem of whether a commutative nonarchimedean Banach ring which is algebraically a field can be topologized by a multiplicative norm. This can fail in general, but it holds for uniform Banach rings under some mild extra conditions. Notably, any perfectoid ring whose underlying ring is a field is a perfectoid field.

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@article{arxiv.1602.09004,
  title  = {On commutative nonarchimedean Banach fields},
  author = {Kiran S. Kedlaya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.09004},
  year   = {2019}
}

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14 pages; v7: includes corrections to published version

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