Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 0 Introductory remarks
- Part I Tools of p-adic Analysis
- Part II Differential Algebra
- Part III p-adic Differential Equations on Discs and Annuli
- Part IV Difference Algebra and Frobenius Modules
- Part V Frobenius Structures
- Part VI The p-adic local monodromy theorem
- Part VII Global theory
- Appendix A Picard–Fuchs modules
- Appendix B Rigid cohomology
- Appendix C p-adic Hodge theory
- References
- Index of notation
- Subject index
0 - Introductory remarks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2022
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 0 Introductory remarks
- Part I Tools of p-adic Analysis
- Part II Differential Algebra
- Part III p-adic Differential Equations on Discs and Annuli
- Part IV Difference Algebra and Frobenius Modules
- Part V Frobenius Structures
- Part VI The p-adic local monodromy theorem
- Part VII Global theory
- Appendix A Picard–Fuchs modules
- Appendix B Rigid cohomology
- Appendix C p-adic Hodge theory
- References
- Index of notation
- Subject index
Summary
In this chapter, we first survey some ways in which ??-adic differential equations appear in number theory. We then focus on an example of Dwork, in which the p-adic behavior of Gauss’s hypergeometric differential equation relates to the manifestly number-theoretic topic of the number of points on an elliptic curve over a finite field.
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- p-adic Differential Equations , pp. 1 - 10Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022