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Shadowing and Stability of Non-Invertible $p$-adic Dynamics

Number Theory 2026-04-30 v3 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

The stability theory of compact metric spaces with positive topological dimension is a well-established area in Dynamical Systems. A central result, attributed to Walters, connects the concepts of topological stability and the shadowing property in invertible dynamics. In contrast, zero-dimensional stability theory is a developing field, with an analogue of Walters' theorem for Cantor spaces being fully established only in 2019 by Kawaguchi. In this paper, we investigate the shadowing and stability properties of non-invertible dynamics in zero-dimensional spaces, focusing on the pp-adic integers Zp\mathbb{Z}_{p} and the pp-adic numbers Qp\mathbb{Q}_{p}, where p2p \geq 2 is a prime number. The main result provides sufficient conditions under which the following families of maps exhibit strong shadowing and stability properties: 1) pp-adic dynamical systems that are right-invertible through contractions, and 2) left-invertible contractions. Consequently, new examples of stable pp-adic dynamics are presented.

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@article{arxiv.2408.04779,
  title  = {Shadowing and Stability of Non-Invertible $p$-adic Dynamics},
  author = {D. A. Caprio and F. Lenarduzzi and A. Messaoudi and I. Tsokanos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.04779},
  year   = {2026}
}

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26 pages

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