Witt-Burnside functor attached to Z_p^2 and p-adic Lipschitz continuous functions

Abstract: Dress and Siebeneicher gave a significant generalization of the construction of Witt vectors, by producing for any profinite group

G

, a ring-valued functor

m a t h b f W_{G}

. This paper gives a concrete interpretation of the rings

m a t h b f W_{m a t h b f Z_{p}^{2}} (k)

where

k

is a field of characteristic

p > 0

in terms of rings of Lipschitz continuous functions on the

p

-adic upper half plane

m a t h b f P^{1} (m a t h b f Q_{p})

. As a consequence we show that the Krull dimensions of the rings

m a t h b f W_{m a t h b f Z_{p}^{d}} (k)

are infinite for

d g e q 2

and we show the Teichm"uller representatives form an analogue of the van der Put basis for continuous functions on

m a t h b f Z_{p}

.

Review text

Let $p$ be a prime number and denote by $\mathbb{Z}_p$ the $p$-adic integers. It is known that for profinite groups $G$ there is a ring valued functor $\mathbf{W}_G$; in the special case $G = \mathbb{Z}_p$, $\mathbf{W}_{\mathbb{Z}_p}(k)$ is the set of $p$-typical Witt vectors over a field $k$. A topology, that the authors call the initial vanishing topology, is defined on $\mathbf{W}_{\mathbb{Z}_p^d}(k)$, where $k$ is a field of characteristic $p$. For $d=1$, this topology agrees with the topology defined by the maximal ideal in $\mathbf{W}_{\mathbb{Z}_p}(k)$. However, it is shown in this paper that for $d \geq 2$, the initial vanishing topology and the topology defined by the maximal ideal in $\mathbf{W}_{\mathbb{Z}_p^d} (k)$ do not agree. Another result proved in this paper is: There is a homomorphism from from \[\mathbf{W}_{\mathbb{Z}_p^2}(k) \rightarrow \mathcal{C}(\mathbb{P}^1(\mathbb{Q}_p), \mathbf{W}_{\mathbb{Z}_p}(k)), \] where $\mathcal{C}(\mathbb{P}^1(\mathbb{Q}_p), \mathbf{W}_{\mathbb{Z}_p}(k))$ is the ring of continuous functions from $\mathbb{P}^1(\mathbb{Q}_p)$ to the $p$-typical Witt vectors $\mathbf{W}_{\mathbb{Z}_p}(k)$. Using this result the authors are able to show that the Krull dimension of $\mathbf{W}_{\mathbb{Z}_p^d}(k)$ is infinite for $d \geq 2$.

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