
p-Adic Valued Distributions in Mathematical Physics
Andrei Y. Khrennikov(Author)
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 31. October 1994
Book
Hardback
XVI, 264 pages
978-0-7923-3172-8 (ISBN)
Description
Numbers ... , natural, rational, real, complex, p-adic .... What do you know about p-adic numbers? Probably, you have never used any p-adic (nonrational) number before now. I was in the same situation few years ago. p-adic numbers were considered as an exotic part of pure mathematics without any application. I have also used only real and complex numbers in my investigations in functional analysis and its applications to the quantum field theory and I was sure that these number fields can be a basis of every physical model generated by nature. But recently new models of the quantum physics were proposed on the basis of p-adic numbers field Qp. What are p-adic numbers, p-adic analysis, p-adic physics, p-adic probability? p-adic numbers were introduced by K. Hensel (1904) in connection with problems of the pure theory of numbers. The construction of Qp is very similar to the construction of (p is a fixed prime number, p = 2,3,5, ... ,127, ... ). Both these number fields are completions of the field of rational numbers Q. But another valuation 1 . Ip is introduced on Q instead of the usual real valuation 1 . I· We get an infinite sequence of non isomorphic completions of Q : Q2, Q3, ... , Q127, ... , IR = Qoo· These fields are the only possibilities to com plete Q according to the famous theorem of Ostrowsky.
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1994 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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XVI, 264 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
594 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-3172-8 (9780792331728)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-015-8356-5
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Prof. Andrei Khrennikov is the director of International center for mathematical modeling in physics, engineering and cognitive science, University of Växjö, Sweden, which was created 8 years ago to perform interdisciplinary research.
Two series of conferences on quantum foundations (especially probabilistic aspects) were established on the basis of this center: "Foundations of Probability and Physics" and "Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations". These series became well known in the quantum community (including quantum information groups). Hundreds of theoreticians (physicists and mathematicians), experimenters and even philosophers participated in these conferences presenting a huge diversity of views to quantum foundations. Contacts with these people played the crucial role in creation of the present book.
Prof. Andrei Khrennikov published about 300 papers in internationally recognized journals in mathematics, physics and biology and 9 monographs - in p-adic and non-Archimedean analysis with applications to mathematical physics and cognitive sciences as well as foundations of probabilityu theory.
Content
I First Steps to Non-Archimedean.- II The Gauss, Lebesgue and Feynman Distributions Over Non-Archimedean Fields.- III The Gauss and Feynman Distributions on Infinite-Dimensional Spaces over Non-Archimedean Fields.- IV Quantum Mechanics for Non-Archimedean Wave Functions.- V Functional Integrals and the Quantization of Non-Archimedean Models with an Infinite Number of Degrees of Freedom.- VI The p-Adic-Valued Probability Measures.- VII Statistical Stabilization with Respect to p-adic and Real Metrics.- VIII The p-adic Valued Probability Distributions (Generalized Functions).- IX p-Adic Superanalysis.- Bibliographical Remarks.- Open Problems.- 1. Expansion of Numbers in a Given Scale.- 2. An Analogue of Newton's Method.