scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1066265
This well-written paper, which is suitable for non-specialists and has 14 illustrative pictures, discusses ways for constructing representations of \(p\)-adic numbers in Euclidean space. As a starting point, the map \[ \sum a_ip^i\mapsto{1\over q-1} \sum a_i/q^{i+1} \] is considered (where \(q>p)\); it is a faithful model, mapping \(\mathbb{Z}_p\) onto a Cantorian subset of the line. More generally, let \(S:= \{0,1,\dots, p-1\}\), let \(V\) be a finite-dimensional space over \(\mathbb{R}\), let \(\varphi:S\to V\) be an injection. Then, if \(q\) is sufficiently large, the map \[ \Phi_q:\sum a_ip^i\mapsto {1\over q-1} \sum \phi(a_i)/q^{i+1} \] is continuous and injective and \(\Phi_q(\mathbb{Z}_p)\) is a fractal. The fact that \(\mathbb{Z}_p\) is the disjoint union \(\bigcup_{a\in S} (a+p\mathbb{Z}_p)\) is reflected in the self-similarity of \(\Phi_q(\mathbb{Z}_p)\). The factor \(1/(q-1)\) above implies that \(\Phi_q(\mathbb{Z}_p)\) is in the convex hull of \(\varphi(S)\). This is the starting point of constructing \(\Phi_q(\mathbb{Z}_p)\) as an intersection of a decreasing sequence of compact sets by using self-similarity. Certain special representations are described (Sierpinski gasket parametrized by \(\mathbb{Z}_3\), space models of \(\mathbb{Z}_5\)) and generalizations are discussed (Antoine's necklace model of \(\mathbb{Z}_p\) for large \(p\)). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0869.00037].
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