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P-adic metric preserving functions and their analogues

Metric Geometry 2019-12-24 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

The pp-adic completion Qp\mathbb{Q}_p of the rational numbers induces a different absolute value p|\cdot|_p than the typical | \cdot | we have on the real numbers. In this paper we compare and contrast functions f ⁣:R+R+f \colon \mathbb{R}^{+} \to \mathbb{R}^{+}, for which the composition with the pp-adic metric dpd_p generated by p|\cdot|_p is still a metric on Qp\mathbb{Q}_p, with the usual metric preserving functions and the functions that preserve the Euclidean metric on R\mathbb{R}. In particular, it is shown that fdpf \circ d_p is still an ultrametric on Qp\mathbb{Q}_p if and only if there is a function gg such that fdp=gdpf \circ d_p = g \circ d_p and gdg \circ d is still an ultrametric for every ultrametric dd. 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