p-adic absolute value (English, noun)
expansion: p-adic absolute value (plural p-adic absolute values)
Senses:
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
qualifier: field theory
glosses: A norm for the rational numbers, with some prime number p as parameter, such that any rational number of the form pᵏ(a/b) — where a, b and k are integers and a, b and p are coprime — is mapped to the rational number p⁻ᵏ and 0 is mapped to 0. (Note: any nonzero rational number can be reduced to such a form.)
Forms:
form: p-adic absolute values
tags: plural