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On the units of algebraic number fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Armand Brumer
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Department of Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.
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Let p be a prime number, Qp the field of p-adic numbers and Ωp the completion of the algebraic closure of Qp with its valuation normed by setting |p| = 1/p. We shall designate by log the p-adic logarithm defined by the usual series

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Research Article
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Copyright © University College London 1967

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