Orthogonality of p-adic characters

AbstractFor an abelian topological group G and a non-archimedean complete valued field K necessary and sufficient conditions are derived in order that the K-valued characters on G form an orthogonal set with respect to the supremum norm (Theorems 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.3). Examples of groups satisfying these conditions (for example Qp) are considered in § 5

The metric approximation property in non-archimedean normed spaces

A normed space E over a rank 1 non-archimedean valued field K has the metric approximation property (MAP) if the identity on E can be approximated pointwise by finite rank operators of norm 1. Characterizations and hereditary properties of the MAP are obtained. For Banach spaces E of countable type the following main result is derived: E has the MAP if and only if E is the orthogonal direct sum of finite-dimensional spaces (Theorem 4.9). Examples of the MAP are also given. Among them, Example 3.3 provides a solution to the following problem, posed by the first author in [8, 4.5]. Does every Banach space of countable type over K have the MAP

Comparing recent reviews about touch screen for Dementia with lessons learnt from the field

Conclusions were synthesised from recent reviews on (touchscreen)technologies and people with dementia and lessons learnt, using these devices in projects in the UK, the Netherlands and Canada. The combined findings provide a strong basis for defining new strategies for exploiting touchscreen technology for people with dementia

Comparing recent reviews about touchscreens for dementia with lessons from the field

Conclusions were synthesised from recent reviews on (touchscreen)technologies and people with dementia and lessons learnt using these devices in projects in the UK, the Netherlands and Canada. The combined findings provide a strong basis for defining new strategies for exploiting touchscreen technology for people with dementia

The structures of Hausdorff metric in non-Archimedean spaces

For non-Archimedean spaces $X$ and $Y,$ let $\mathcal{M}_{\flat } (X), \mathfrak{M}(V \rightarrow W)$ and $\mathfrak{D}_{\flat }(X, Y)$ be the ballean of $X$ (the family of the balls in $X$), the space of mappings from $X$ to $Y,$ and the space of mappings from the ballen of $X$ to $Y,$ respectively. By studying explicitly the Hausdorff metric structures related to these spaces, we construct several families of new metric structures (e.g., $\widehat{\rho } _{u}, \widehat{\beta }_{X, Y}^{\lambda }, \widehat{\beta }_{X, Y}^{\ast \lambda }$) on the corresponding spaces, and study their convergence, structural relation, law of variation in the variable $\lambda,$ including some normed algebra structure. To some extent, the class $\widehat{\beta }_{X, Y}^{\lambda }$ is a counterpart of the usual Levy-Prohorov metric in the probability measure spaces, but it behaves very differently, and is interesting in itself. Moreover, when $X$ is compact and $Y = K$ is a complete non-Archimedean field, we construct and study a Dudly type metric of the space of $K-$valued measures on $X.$Comment: 43 pages; this is the final version. Thanks to the anonymous referee's helpful comments, the original Theorem 2.10 is removed, Proposition 2.10 is stated now in a stronger form, the abstact is rewritten, the Monna-Springer is used in Section 5, and Theorem 5.2 is written in a more general for

p-Adic and Adelic Generalization of Quantum Cosmology

p-Adic and adelic generalization of ordinary quantum cosmology is considered. In [1], we have calculated p-adic wave functions for some minisuperspace cosmological models according to the "no-boundary" Hartle-Hawking proposal. In this article, applying p-adic and adelic quantum mechanics, we show existence of the corresponding vacuum eigenstates. Adelic wave function contains some information on discrete structure of space-time at the Planck scale.Comment: 12 page

Linear Fractional p-Adic and Adelic Dynamical Systems

Using an adelic approach we simultaneously consider real and p-adic aspects of dynamical systems whose states are mapped by linear fractional transformations isomorphic to some subgroups of GL (2, Q), SL (2, Q) and SL (2, Z) groups. In particular, we investigate behavior of these adelic systems when fixed points are rational. It is shown that any of these rational fixed points is p-adic indifferent for all but a finite set of primes. Thus only for finite number of p-adic cases a rational fixed point may be attractive or repelling. It is also shown that real and p-adic norms of any nonzero rational fixed point are connected by adelic product formula.Comment: 17 page

Invariance in adelic quantum mechanics

Adelic quantum mechanics is form invariant under an interchange of real and p-adic number fields as well as rings of p-adic integers. We also show that in adelic quantum mechanics Feynman's path integrals for quadratic actions with rational coefficients are invariant under changes of their entries within nonzero rational numbers.Comment: 6 page

Orthogonal sequences in non-archmedean locally convex spaces

AbstractThe problem of the existence of (orthogonal) bases and basic sequences in non-archimedean locally convex spaces is studied. To this end we derive a characterization of compactoidity in terms of orthogonal sequences (Theorem 2.2)