Characteristic 1, entropy and the absolute point

zbMATH Open1273.11140arXiv0911.3537MaRDI QIDQ2904907FDOQ2904907

Authors: Caterina Consani, Alain Connes 

Publication date: 24 August 2012

Abstract: We show that the mathematical meaning of working in characteristic one is directly connected to the fields of idempotent analysis and tropical algebraic geometry and we relate this idea to the notion of the absolute point. After introducing the notion of "perfect" semi-ring of characteristic one, we explain how to adapt the construction of the Witt ring in positive characteristic to the limit case of characteristic one. This construction unveils an interesting connection with entropy and thermodynamics, while shedding a new light on the classical Witt construction itself. We simplify our earlier construction of the geometric realization of an F_1-scheme and extend our earlier computations of the zeta function to cover the case of F_1-schemes with torsion. Then, we show that the study of the additive structures on monoids provides a natural map from monoids to sets which comes close to fulfill the requirements for the hypothetical curve compactifying Spec Z over the absolute point. Finally, we test the computation of the zeta function on elliptic curves over the rational numbers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.3537

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zbMATH Keywords

zeta functionsfield with one elementabsolute mathematicscharacteristic oneKurokawa tensor productabsolute tensor product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(zeta (s)) and (L(s, chi)) (11M06) Multiple Dirichlet series and zeta functions and multizeta values (11M32) Other Dirichlet series and zeta functions (11M41) Relations with noncommutative geometry (11M55)

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