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The correspondence between consistent maps and measures on the places of $\overline{\mathbb Q}$

Number Theory 2025-04-17 v4

Abstract

Recent work of the author established dual representation theorems for certain vector spaces that arise in an important article of Allcock and Vaaler. These results constructed an object called a consistent map which acts like a measure on the set of places of Q\overline{\mathbb Q}, but is not a Borel measure on this space. We describe the appropriate ring of sets R\mathcal R for which every consistent map arises from a measure on R\mathcal R. We further obtain the conditions under which a consistent map may be extended to a measure on the smallest algebra containing R\mathcal R.

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@article{arxiv.2405.06519,
  title  = {The correspondence between consistent maps and measures on the places of $\overline{\mathbb Q}$},
  author = {Charles L. Samuels},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.06519},
  year   = {2025}
}