p-adic ultrametric

English

Noun

p-adic ultrametric (plural p-adic ultrametrics)

1. (number theory) The ultrametric with prime number p as parameter defined as $d_{p}(x,y)=|x-y|_{p}$; i.e., such that the distance between two rational numbers is equal to the p-adic absolute value of the difference between those two numbers.

Hypernyms

• ultrametric

Related terms

• p-adic number