P-adic metric preserving functions and their analogues
Metric Geometry
2019-12-24 v1 Number Theory
Abstract
The -adic completion of the rational numbers induces a different absolute value than the typical we have on the real numbers. In this paper we compare and contrast functions , for which the composition with the -adic metric generated by is still a metric on , with the usual metric preserving functions and the functions that preserve the Euclidean metric on . In particular, it is shown that is still an ultrametric on if and only if there is a function such that and is still an ultrametric for every ultrametric . Some general variants of the last statement are also proved.
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@article{arxiv.1912.10411,
title = {P-adic metric preserving functions and their analogues},
author = {Robert W. Vallin and Oleksiy A. Dovgoshey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.10411},
year = {2019}
}
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21 pages, 3 figures