The \( p\)-adic law of large numbers (Q2821882)

The author considers random variables with values in the field \(\mathbb Q_p\) of \(p\)-adic numbers, \(p\neq 2\). Specifically, let \(\mathbb Z_p\) be the unit ball in \(\mathbb Q_p\) (often called the ring of \(p\)-adic integers). Let \(\mathbb P\) be the Haar measure on \(\mathbb Q_p\) normalized by the condition \(\mathbb P(\mathbb Z_p)=1\). Then, the above random variables are \(\mathbb P\)-measurable mappings \(\xi:\;\mathbb Z_p\to \mathbb Q_p\).NEWLINENEWLINELet \(\mathbb P_\xi\) be the distribution of \(\xi\), \(B_\xi\) be a minimal ball containing the support of the measure \(\mathbb P_\xi\) and the origin. Its measure \(D=\mathbb P(B_\xi )\) is called the dispersion of \(\xi\). The limit theorems proved in the paper deal mostly with a sequence of centered independent identically distributed random variables with finite dispersion. The sequence \(S_n=\xi_1+\xi_2+\cdots +\xi_n\) converges by distribution to a random variable with an absolutely continuous distribution. Under certain additional assumptions, the rate of convergence is studied. More general situations (non-centered random variables, non-identically distributed random variables with uniformly bounded dispersions) are also considered.