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A p-adic Montel theorem and locally polynomial functions

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2013-02-19 v1

Abstract

We prove a version of both Jacobi's and Montel's Theorems for the case of continuous functions defined over the field Qp\mathbb{Q}_p of pp-adic numbers. In particular, we prove that, if Δh0m+1f(x)=0  for allxQp, \Delta_{h_0}^{m+1}f(x)=0 \ \ \text{for all} x\in\mathbb{Q}_p, and h0p=pN0|h_0|_p=p^{-N_0} then, for all x0Qpx_0\in \mathbb{Q}_p, the restriction of ff over the set x0+pN0Zpx_0+p^{N_0}\mathbb{Z}_p coincides with a polynomial px0(x)=a0(x0)+a1(x0)x+...+am(x0)xmp_{x_0}(x)=a_0(x_0)+a_1(x_0)x+...+a_m(x_0)x^m. Motivated by this result, we compute the general solution of the functional equation with restrictions given by {equation} \Delta_h^{m+1}f(x)=0 \ \ (x\in X \text{and} h\in B_X(r)=\{x\in X:\|x\|\leq r\}), {equation} whenever f:XYf:X\to Y, XX is an ultrametric normed space over a non-Archimedean valued field (K,...)(\mathbb{K},|...|) of characteristic zero, and YY is a Q\mathbb{Q}-vector space. By obvious reasons, we call these functions uniformly locally polynomial.

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@article{arxiv.1302.4086,
  title  = {A p-adic Montel theorem and locally polynomial functions},
  author = {J. M. Almira and Kh. F. Abu-Helaiel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.4086},
  year   = {2013}
}

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12 pages, submitted to a journal

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