p-adic Analysis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The research unit PEAD studies Non-archimedean functional analysis. The term "non-archimedean" refers to the fact that the scalars, which in classical functional analysis are real or complex numbers, are now elements of a valued field K with non-archimedean valuation. I.e. a valuation that satisfies the strong triangle inequality |x+y| £ Max{|x|, |y|}. The best known examples of such fields are the fields of p-adic numbers, p a prime number ...