P-adic analysis
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The theory of complex-valued numerical functions on the p-adic numbers is just part of the theory of locally compact groups. The usual meaning taken for p-adic analysis is the theory of p-adic-valued functions on spaces of interest.
Applications of p-adic analysis have mainly been in number theory, where it has a significant role in diophantine geometry and diophantine approximation. Some applications have required the development of p-adic functional analysis and spectral theory. In many ways p-adic analysis is less subtle than classical analysis, since the ultrametric inequality means, for example, that convergence of infinite series of p-adic numbers is much simpler. Topological vector spaces over p-adic fields show distinctive features; for example aspects relating to convexity and the Hahn-Banach theorem are different.
See also
- Mahler's theorem, which treats a p-adic analog of Taylor series.
- Hensel's lemma
- Locally compact space
- Real analysis
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