DISTALITY OF CERTAIN ACTIONS ON -ADIC SPHERES

Abstract: Consider the action of

G L (n, m a t h b b Q_{p})

on the

p

-adic unit sphere

m a t h c a l S_{n}

arising from the linear action on

m a t h b b Q_{p}^{n} s e t m i n u s 0

. We show that for the action of a semigroup

m a t h f r a k S

of

G L (n, m a t h b b Q_{p})

on

m a t h c a l S_{n}

, the following are equivalent: (1)

m a t h f r a k S

acts distally on

m a t h c a l S_{n}

. (2) the closure of the image of

m a t h f r a k S

in

P G L (n, m a t h b b Q_{p})

is a compact group. On

m a t h c a l S_{n}

, we consider the `affine' maps

o v e r l i n e T_{a}

corresponding to

T

in

G L (n, m a t h b b Q_{p})

and a nonzero

a

in

m a t h b b Q_{p}^{n}

satisfying

| T^{- 1} (a) |_{p} < 1

. We show that there exists a compact open subgroup

V

, which depends on

T

, such that

o v e r l i n e T_{a}

is distal for every nonzero

a i n V

if and only if

T

acts distally on

m a t h c a l S_{n}

. The dynamics of `affine' maps on

p

-adic unit spheres is quite different from that on the real unit spheres.

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