p-adic Differential Equations

Download or read book p-adic Differential Equations written by Kiran S. Kedlaya and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 50 years the theory of p-adic differential equations has grown into an active area of research in its own right, and has important applications to number theory and to computer science. This book, the first comprehensive and unified introduction to the subject, improves and simplifies existing results as well as including original material. Based on a course given by the author at MIT, this modern treatment is accessible to graduate students and researchers. Exercises are included at the end of each chapter to help the reader review the material, and the author also provides detailed references to the literature to aid further study.