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Numbers & p-adics papers 29 papers
Mathematicians. Valuation theory and the p-adic and adelic programme, Bruhat-Tits trees and ultrametric geometry as mathematics, Ostrowski's theorem, numeral and radix systems, primes, arithmetic and algebraic structures, zeta and gamma functions.
Valuation theory. Valuations, Ostrowski's theorem, completions Tagged papers: 73.
Ostrowski's Classification as a Selection Rule: A Falsifiable Program for the Adelic Shadow of the Standard Model Gauge Group
Ostrowski's theorem classifies the completions of the rational numbers $\mathbb{Q}$: exactly one Archimedean completion, $\mathbb{R}$, and one $p$-adic completion $\mathbb{Q}_p$ for each prime. Theoretical physics uses only the first. A conjecture in the adelic physics program holds that the…
Automorphisms and Scaling Transformations: Conjugation Action, Parameter Rescaling, and Growth of Associative Structure
Automorphism groups encode the symmetries of algebraic varieties, non-associative algebras, parabolic geometries, group splittings, and holomorphic dynamical systems, but each setting is treated with its own tools, and practitioners lack a uniform test for when a rescaling of coordinates,…
Adelic Factorization of Quantum Dynamics Across All Completions of ℚ
We explore the conjecture that the conventional choice of the Archimedean completion ℝ as the underlying number field of quantum theory is a matter of convention rather than necessity. By invoking Ostrowski’s theorem, which partitions the completions of ℚ into the unique Archimedean place ∞ and the…
Is There a $p$-Adic $\pi$? Haar-Measure Circle Constants over $\mathbb{Q}_p$ and an Adelic Product Formula
The real number $\pi \approx 3.14159$ is defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Since Ostrowski's theorem embeds $\mathbb{Q}$ diagonally into every completion $\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{Q}_p$, one may ask whether this ratio admits a well-defined analogue $\pi_p$ at each…
Measurement as Place-Crossing: Completion-Selective Adelic Projection
We propose a structural reframing of the quantum measurement problem in number-theoretic terms. By Ostrowski's theorem, the completions of $\mathbb{Q}$ consist of a single Archimedean place ($\mathbb{R}$) and countably many $p$-adic places ($\mathbb{Q}_p$); standard quantum mechanics is formulated…
A Universal Adelic Normalization Principle: Ostrowski's Product Formula and Ono's Tamagawa Numbers as Specializations of One Local–Global Schema
Ostrowski's product formula $\prod_{v}|x|_{v}=1$ for a global field and Ono's formula $\tau(T)=|\mathrm{H}^{1}(k,\widehat{T})|/|\Sha(T)|$ for the Tamagawa number of an algebraic torus both assert that a family of individually free local contributions aggregates, under a global consistency condition,…
Archimedean Constants as Measure-Theoretic Artifacts of the Infinite Place: A Reconciled Derivation of the Local Status of $\pi$
Ostrowski's theorem partitions the non-trivial completions of $\mathbb{Q}$ into exactly one Archimedean place ($\mathbb{R}$) and countably many non-Archimedean places ($\mathbb{Q}_p$). Mainstream physics is formulated exclusively at the Archimedean place, and its most ubiquitous transcendental…
The p-Adic Temperley–Lieb Parameter: Valuation-Theoretic Constraints and an Adelic Accuracy Framework for Quantum Predictions
The Temperley–Lieb (TL) algebra governs a broad class of exactly solvable quantum systems, from anyonic chains to braid-based teleportation circuits, through its scalar loop parameter δ. We investigate the proposal that a p-adic Temperley–Lieb parameter — a number-theoretic functional of δ — can…
Distinction, Number, and the Empirical Filter: The Pre-Arithmetic Research Framework
The QNFO arithmetic-physics program connects number-theoretic structure to statistical mechanics: prime-indexed modes with logarithmic energies yield partition functions that are exactly zeta objects, and hierarchy distance is a realization-independent ultrametric. This record states the…
The Distinction-Based Ultrametric: A Hierarchy Distance Without Primes, and the Statistical Test of Arithmetic Structure in Physical Spectra
Quantum mechanics is written in one completion of the rational numbers, the real line, though Ostrowski's theorem gives one completion for every prime. A line of work reads physical structure through those other places, but its empirical tests of prime-specific geometry in physical systems have…
Completeness Senses and the Levi-Civita Field: Ordered Non-Archimedean Number Systems Beyond Ostrowski's Classification
Ostrowski's theorem classifies every nontrivial rank-1 absolute value on the rationals; this paper distinguishes three senses of completeness and exhibits the Levi-Civita field as a Cauchy-complete, ordered, real-closed, non-Archimedean counterexample.
Prime Valuation Depth: Multiplication as Branching, the Calculus of Indications, and the Structural No-Cloning Reading
This paper develops a structural reading of the p-adic valuation as a measure of depth along a prime branch of the integer factorization tree, rather than a measure of size. The reading, grounded in Ostrowski's classification of absolute values on the rationals, is proposed as a bridge between the…
The Universe Category: A Single Functor Encoding Quantization, Stability, and Factorization
This paper proposes a single categorical object — a functor from the divisibility category of the positive integers to the category of smooth compact manifolds — and investigates whether its image simultaneously encodes three structures that have historically been treated as separate: quantization…
Valuation Without R: A Category-Theoretic Foundation for Finite Measurement
Measurement in physics is always finite and approximate — yet its mathematical foundations are embedded in the Archimedean continuum of real numbers and the cumulative hierarchy of set theory. We invert this dependency: the act of measurement is axiomatized as a graded distinguishability map…
When Will Non-Archimedean Geometry Displace the Real Numbers? A Structured Assessment of the Adelic Substrate Thesis
The real numbers are the default continuum for physical modeling — every quantum state lives in a Hilbert space over $\mathbb{C}$, every neural network optimizes over $\mathbb{R}^n$, every error-correcting code is designed with Euclidean distance. Yet Ostrowski's theorem (1916) demonstrates that the…
Adelic Entropic Numbers: When the Adelic Information Vector Becomes the Entropic Number
Two papers, written independently on the same day, converge on the same structure from opposite directions. Adelic Shannon Theory [1] generalises Shannon information theory to the adele ring $\mathbb{A}_{\mathbb{Q}}$, defining the *adelic information vector…
The History and Future of Measurement Stratigraphy, Number Theory, and Valuation Theory
[We propose a unified framework — the Stratigraphy of Measurement — that reinterprets the history of number systems as a sequence of expanding distinction operations. Each era adds a new enclosure: marking ($\\mathbb{N}$), comparing ratios ($\\mathbb{Q}$), convergent sequences ($\\mathbb{R}$_comp),…
The Continuum Critique Trilogy
Three papers, one thesis: the real-number continuum is a map, not the territory — and many "unsolved problems" in mathematics and physics are artifacts of representational choices rather than genuine ignorance. This monograph unifies three companion papers into a single narrative. Paper I (The…
HM-LWE v3.0
Hidden-modulus LWE: novel hardness assumption
Measure-Theoretic Artifacts of the Archimedean Place — v2.0: The Completion Problem, the Langlands Connection, and the Adelic Restructuring of Fundamental Physics
Ostrowski's theorem partitions all non-trivial completions of $\mathbb{Q}$ into exactly one Archimedean completion ($\mathbb{R}$, the $\infty$-place) and infinitely many non-Archimedean completions ($\mathbb{Q}_p$ for each prime $p$). These topologies are mutually singular — no sequence converges…
Measure-Theoretic Artifacts of the Archimedean Place: A Complete Taxonomy and the Adelic Restructuring of Fundamental Science
Ostrowski theorem partitions all non-trivial completions of Q into exactly one Archimedean completion and infinitely many non-Archimedean completions. Physics operates exclusively at the Archimedean place. Catalogues measure-theoretic artifacts across 5 categories with 16 completion failures…
The Adelic Completion of the Harmonic Paradigm: A Five-Pillar Red-Team Assessment
The Harmonic Paradigm (V1.0-V4.0, 2026) proposed the harmonic oscillator as the universal IR attractor of quantum theory, with an 8-rung ladder spanning from transmon anharmonicity to quantum gravity. Its bibliography invoked Ostrowski's theorem and p-adic structures, yet its core mechanisms were…
Non-Anthropocentric Natural Units: From the Bekenstein Bound to Ostrowski's Theorem
We strip away all anthropocentric constructions from the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy bound. Area as dimensionless geometric invariant; exponential bound defined without logarithmic base; integer Hilbert space dimension as universal invariant. Ostrowski's theorem reveals the Archimedean completion is…
The Adelic Constraints Project — A Complete Account
<p></p> <p>This document is a complete, self-contained account of a research project conducted in May 2026. The project asked whether a specific piece of pure mathematics — the fact that the rational numbers can be "completed" in multiple incompatible ways, and that a single identity links all…
The p-Adic Temperley-Lieb Parameter: Cyclotomic Units, Markov Traces, and the p-Adic Jones Polynomial
Establishes the Temperley-Lieb parameter as p-adic cyclotomic units and constructs the p-adic Jones polynomial.
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Computational Toolkit for p-Adic Spacetime
The fundamental incompatibility between the continuous manifolds of general relativity and the discrete nature of quantum mechanics remains a central tension in theoretical physics. This manuscript develops and validates a computational toolkit designed to test theories of p-adic spacetime, which…
Arithmetic Gauge Concentration
Analytic number theory traditionally relies on probabilistic models to describe the asymptotic distribution of prime numbers, treating them as independent random variables. However, this approach fails to account for the deterministic rigidity observed in ergodic theory and the spectral statistics…
The Ultrametric Foundation: A Unified Thesis on Number, Time, Knowledge, and Computation
Positional notation is inherently an ultrametric tree of nested cycles. The Archimedean line is a derived abstraction. Recovering the native ultrametric resolves cascading errors across mathematics, physics, epistemology, education, quantum computing, and interface design.
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