Author : Bernard Dwork,Giovanni Gerotto,Francis J. Sullivan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994-05-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780691036816
An Introduction to G-functions by Bernard Dwork,Giovanni Gerotto,Francis J. Sullivan Pdf
After presenting a review of valuation theory and elementary p-adic analysis together with an application to the congruence zeta function, this book offers a detailed study of the p-adic properties of formal power series solutions of linear differential equations. In particular, the p-adic radii of convergence and the p-adic growth of coefficients are studied. Recent work of Christol, Bombieri, André, and Dwork is treated and augmented. The book concludes with Chudnovsky's theorem: the analytic continuation of a G -series is again a G -series. This book will be indispensable for those wishing to study the work of Bombieri and André on global relations and for the study of the arithmetic properties of solutions of ordinary differential equations.