Behaviour of Hensel perturbations of p-adic monomial dynamical systems

In the framework of non-Archimedean (p-adic) analysis we study cyclic behaviour of polynomial discrete dynamical systems (iterations of polynomial maps). One of the main tools of our investigation is Hensel's lemma (a p-adic analogue of Newton's method). Our considerations will lead to formulas for the number cycles of a specific length and for the total number of cycles. We will also study the distribution of cycles in the different p-adic fields.     

From image processing to topological modelling with <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-adic numbers

Encoding the hierarchical structure of images by p-adic numbers allows for image processing and computer vision methods motivated from arithmetic physics. The p-adic Polyakov action leads to the p-adic diffusion equation in low level vision. Hierarchical segmentation provides another way of p-adic encoding. Then a topology on that finite set of p-adic numbers yields a hierarchy of topological models underlying the image. In the case of chain complexes, the chain maps yield conditions for the existence of a hierarchy, and these can be expressed in terms of p-adic integrals. Such a chain complex hierarchy is a special case of a persistence complex from computational topology, where it is used for computing persistence barcodes for shapes. The approach is motivated by the observation that using p-adic numbers often leads to more efficient algorithms than their real or complex counterparts.     

Kato’s Euler system and rational points on elliptic curves I: A p-adic Beilinson formula

This article is the first in a series devoted to Kato’s Euler system arising from p-adic families of Beilinson elements in the K-theory of modular curves. It proves a p-adic Beilinson formula relating the syntomic regulator (in the sense of Coleman-de Shalit and Besser) of certain distinguished elements in the K-theory of modular curves to the special values at integer points ≥ 2 of the Mazur-Swinnerton-Dyer p-adic L-function attached to cusp forms of weight 2. When combined with the explicit relation between syntomic regulators and p-adic étale cohomology, this leads to an alternate proof of the main results of [Br2] and [Ge] which is independent of Kato’s explicit reciprocity law.     

Pseudodifferential <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-adic vector fields and pseudodifferentiation of a composite <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-adic function

We discuss transformation of p-adic pseudodifferential operators (in the one-dimensional and multidimensional cases) with respect to p-adic maps which correspond to automorphisms of the tree of balls in the corresponding p-adic spaces. In the dimension one we find a rule of transformation for pseudodifferential operators. In particular we find the formula of pseudodifferentiation of a composite function with respect to the Vladimirov p-adic fractional operator. We describe the frame of wavelets for the group of parabolic automorphisms of the tree T (O _p ) of balls in O _p . In many dimensions we introduce the group of mod p-affine transformations, the family of pseudodifferential operators corresponding to pseudodifferentiation along vector fields on the tree T (O _p ) and obtain a rule of transformation of the introduced pseudodifferential operators with respect to mod p-affine transformations.     

The Algebraic K-Theory Spectrum of a 2-Adic Local Field

We explicitly determine the homotopy type of the 2-completed algebraic K-theory spectrum KF, where F is an arbitrary finite extension of the 2-adic rational numbers. The answer is formulated in terms of topological complex K-theory and the K-theory of suitable finite fields, suspended copies of which are glued together by connecting maps that depend on the Iwasawa theory of F.     

A relation between <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-adic <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis>-functions and the Tamagawa number conjecture for Hecke characters

We prove that the submodule in K-theory which gives the exact value of the L-function by the Beilinson regulator map at non-critical values for Hecke characters of imaginary quadratic fields K with cl (K) = 1(p-local Tamagawa number conjecture) satisfies that the length of its coimage under the local Soulé regulator map is the p-adic valuation of certain special values of p-adic L-functions associated to the Hecke characters. This result yields immediately, up to Jannsens conjecture, an upper bound for in terms of the valuation of these p-adic L-functions, where V_p denotes the p-adic realization of a Hecke motive.Received: 4 June 2003     

Local constancy in families of non-abelian Galois representations

If is a a scheme of finite type over a local field F, and is a proper smooth family, then to each rational point one can assign an extension of the absolute Galois group of F by the geometric fundamental group G of the fibre . If F has uniformiser , and residue characteristic p, we show that the corresponding extension of the absolute Galois group of by the maximal prime to p quotient of G is locally constant in the -adic topology of . We give a similar result in the case of non-proper families, and families over -adic analytic spaces. Received August 14, 1998     

On p-adic classification

A p-adic modification of the split-LBG classification method is presented in which first clusterings and then cluster centers are computed which locally minimize an energy function. The outcome for a fixed dataset is independent of the prime number p with finitely many exceptions. The methods are applied to the construction of p-adic classifiers in the context of learning.     

The BC-system and L-functions

In these lectures we survey some relations between L-functions and the BC-system, including new results obtained in collaboration with C. Consani. For each prime p and embedding σ of the multiplicative group of an algebraic closure of \mathbb F_p{\mathbb {F}_p} as complex roots of unity, we construct a p-adic indecomposable representation π_σ of the integral BC-system. This construction is done using the identification of the big Witt ring of [`(\mathbb F)]_p{\bar{\mathbb F}_p} and by implementing the Artin–Hasse exponentials. The obtained representations are the p-adic analogues of the complex, extremal KMS_∞ states of the BC-system. We use the theory of p-adic L-functions to determine the partition function. Together with the analogue of the Witt construction in characteristic one, these results provide further evidence towards the construction of an analogue, for the global field of rational numbers, of the curve which provides the geometric support for the arithmetic of function fields.     

On p-adic families of Hilbert cusp forms of finite slope

Let p be a prime number and F a totally real field. In this article, we obtain a p-adic interpolation of spaces of totally definite quaternionic automorphic forms over F of finite slope, and construct p-adic families of automorphic forms parametrized by affinoid Hecke varieties. Further, as an application to the case where [F:Q] is even, we obtain p-adic analytic families of Hilbert eigenforms having fixed finite slope parametrized by weights. This is an analogue of Coleman's analytic families in [R.F. Coleman, p-Adic Banach spaces and families of modular forms, Invent. Math. 127 (1997) 417-479].     

Syntomic regulators andp-adic integration I: Rigid syntomic regulators

We construct a new version of syntomic cohomology, called rigid syntomic cohomology, for smooth schemes over the ring of integers of ap-adic field. This version is more refined than previous constructions and naturally maps to most of them. We construct regulators fromK-theory into rigid syntomic cohomology. We also define a “modified” syntomic cohomology, which is better behaved in explicit computations yet is isomorphic to rigid syntomic cohomology in most cases of interest.     

p-adic multiple zeta values I.

Our main aim in this paper is to give a foundation of the theory of p-adic multiple zeta values. We introduce (one variable) p-adic multiple polylogarithms by Colemans p-adic iterated integration theory. We define p-adic multiple zeta values to be special values of p-adic multiple polylogarithms. We consider the (formal) p-adic KZ equation and introduce the p-adic Drinfeld associator by using certain two fundamental solutions of the p-adic KZ equation. We show that our p-adic multiple polylogarithms appear as coefficients of a certain fundamental solution of the p-adic KZ equation and our p-adic multiple zeta values appear as coefficients of the p-adic Drinfeld associator. We show various properties of p-adic multiple zeta values, which are sometimes analogous to the complex case and are sometimes peculiar to the p-adic case, via the p-adic KZ equation.     

A p-adic analogue of Siegel's theorem on sums of squares

Siegel proved that every totally positive element of a number field K is the sum of four squares, so in particular the Pythagoras number is uniformly bounded across number fields. The p-adic Kochen operator provides a p-adic analogue of squaring, and a certain localisation of the ring generated by this operator consists of precisely the totally p-integral elements of K. We use this to formulate and prove a p-adic analogue of Siegel's theorem, by introducing the p-Pythagoras number of a general field, and showing that this number is uniformly bounded across number fields. We also generally study fields with finite p-Pythagoras number and show that the growth of the p-Pythagoras number in finite extensions is bounded.     

On recent results of ergodic property for p-adic dynamical systems

Theory of dynamical systems in fields of p-adic numbers is an important part of algebraic and arithmetic dynamics. The study of p-adic dynamical systems is motivated by their applications in various areas of mathematics, physics, genetics, biology, cognitive science, neurophysiology, computer science, cryptology, etc. In particular, p-adic dynamical systems found applications in cryptography, which stimulated the interest to nonsmooth dynamical maps. An important class of (in general) nonsmooth maps is given by 1-Lipschitz functions. In this paper we present a recent summary of results about the class of 1-Lipschitz functions and describe measure-preserving (for the Haar measure on the ring of p-adic integers) and ergodic functions. The main mathematical tool used in this work is the representation of the function by the van der Put series which is actively used in p-adic analysis. The van der Put basis differs fundamentally from previously used ones (for example, the monomial and Mahler basis) which are related to the algebraic structure of p-adic fields. The basic point in the construction of van der Put basis is the continuity of the characteristic function of a p-adic ball. Also we use an algebraic structure (permutations) induced by coordinate functions with partially frozen variables.     

Ramification de certaines extensions de Lie p-adiques

Let G be a p-adic Lie group and let K be a finite extension of the p-adic number field ℚ _p . There are finitely many filtrations of G which could be ramification filtrations of totally ramified Galois extensions of K with Galois group G. Received: 19 October 1998     

Automata finiteness criterion in terms of van der Put series of automata functions

In the paper we develop the p-adic theory of discrete automata. Every automaton \mathfrakA\mathfrak{A} (transducer) whose input/output alphabets consist of p symbols can be associated to a continuous (in fact, 1-Lipschitz) map from p-adic integers to p-adic integers, the automaton function f_\mathfrakA f_\mathfrak{A} . The p-adic theory (in particular, the p-adic ergodic theory) turned out to be very efficient in a study of properties of automata expressed via properties of automata functions. In the paper we prove a criterion for finiteness of the number of states of automaton in terms of van der Put series of the automaton function. The criterion displays connections between p-adic analysis and the theory of automata sequences.     

Overconvergent modular sheaves and modular forms for GL 2/F

Given a totally real field F and a prime integer p which is unramified in F, we construct p-adic families of overconvergent Hilbert modular forms (of non-necessarily parallel weight) as sections of, so called, overconvergent Hilbert modular sheaves. We prove that the classical Hilbert modular forms of integral weights are overconvergent in our sense. We compare our notion with Katz’s definition of p-adic Hilbert modular forms. For F = ?, we prove that our notion of (families of) overconvergent elliptic modular forms coincides with those of R. Coleman and V. Pilloni.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Adic Mikusinski calculus and its applications to the fourier and the mahler expansions of locally constant functions

We consider the p-adic counterpart of Mikusinski’s operational calculus based on the algebra C(ℤ _p ) of continuous functions on ℤ _p taking values in ℂ _p and equipped with the discrete Laplace convolution. Elements of the field (hyperfunctions) corresponding to shift operators, difference operators, and the indefinite sum operator are considered. A notion of p-adic exponent is generalized. Applications to the Fourier and the Mahler expansions of the indicator function of a ball and the convolution of two indicator functions are provided. Two ways of applying the p-adic analog of Mikusinski’s operational calculus lead us to the Fourier expansion for the fractional part of a p-adic number.     

The irreducible orthogonal and symplectic Galois representations of a p-adic field (the tame case)

Let F be a p-adic field. If n is a natural number relatively prime to p, then all the irreducible n-dimensional Galois representations are parametrized by admissible characters. This parametrization is used to determine which of these characters are real-valued, and among the real-valued representations to distinguish the orthogonal representations from the symplectic representations.