p-adic metric preserving functions and their analogues

Abstract: The

p

-adic completion

m a t h b b Q_{p}

of the rational numbers induces a different absolute value

| c d o t |_{p}

than the typical

| c d o t |

we have on the real numbers. In this paper we compare and contrast functions

f c o l o n m a t h b b R^{+} o m a t h b b R^{+}

, for which the composition with the

p

-adic metric

d_{p}

generated by

| c d o t |_{p}

is still a metric on

m a t h b b Q_{p}

, with the usual metric preserving functions and the functions that preserve the Euclidean metric on

m a t h b b R

. In particular, it is shown that

f c i r c d_{p}

is still an ultrametric on

m a t h b b Q_{p}

if and only if there is a function

g

such that

f c i r c d_{p} = g c i r c d_{p}

and

g c i r c d

is still an ultrametric for every ultrametric

d

. Some general variants of the last statement are also proved.

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