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In mathematics, a complete field is a field equipped with a metric and complete with respect to that metric. Basic examples include the real numbers, the complex numbers, and complete valued fields (such as the p-adic numbers). The real numbers are the field with the standard euclidean metric . Since it is constructed from the completion of with respect to this metric, it is a complete field. Extending the reals by its algebraic closure gives the field (since its absolute Galois group is ). In this case, is also a complete field, but this is not the case in many cases. The p-adic numbers are constructed from by using the p-adic absolute valuewhere Then using the factorization where does not divide its valuation is the integer . The completion of by is the complete field called the p-adic numbers. This is a case where the field is not algebraically closed. Typically, the process is to take the separable closure and then complete it again. This field is usually denoted For the function field of a curve every point corresponds to an absolute value, or place, . Given an element expressed by a fraction the place measures the order of vanishing of at minus the order of vanishing of at Then, the completion of at gives a new field.

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Complete field

P-adic number

In number theory, given a prime number p, the p-adic numbers form an extension of the rational numbers which is distinct from the real numbers, though with some similar properties; p-adic numbers can be written in a form similar to (possibly infinite) decimals, but with digits based on a prime number p rather than ten, and extending (possibly infinitely) to the left rather than to the right.

Complex number

In mathematics, a complex number is an element of a number system that extends the real numbers with a specific element denoted i, called the imaginary unit and satisfying the equation ; every complex number can be expressed in the form , where a and b are real numbers. Because no real number satisfies the above equation, i was called an imaginary number by René Descartes. For the complex number , a is called the , and b is called the . The set of complex numbers is denoted by either of the symbols or C.

Sums Of Squares In Algebraic Function Fields Over A Complete Discretely Valued Field

David Maximilian Grimm

A recently found local-global principle for quadratic forms over function fields of curves over a complete discretely valued field is applied to the study of quadratic forms, sums of squares, and related field invariants.

Pacific Journal Mathematics2014