Actually, a lot of these I'm lost on because I don't know a thing about p-adics! But I'll go learn about them at some point. Wikipedia aside, can you recommend a good reference?
12 is groovy because I like isometries... By the way, the Killing-Hopf theorem of which I was telling you has no article on wikipedia and in fact shows up very rarely on google (44 matches). Perhaps it is known under a different name, or maybe it is really just not very well known. It's pretty damn useful in classifying Riemannian surfaces of constant curvature though, so it's worth looking into. A good ref is Geometry of Surfaces by John Stillwell (1992).
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Date: 2005-12-26 10:34 pm (UTC)12 is groovy because I like isometries...
By the way, the Killing-Hopf theorem of which I was telling you has no article on wikipedia and in fact shows up very rarely on google (44 matches). Perhaps it is known under a different name, or maybe it is really just not very well known. It's pretty damn useful in classifying Riemannian surfaces of constant curvature though, so it's worth looking into. A good ref is Geometry of Surfaces by John Stillwell (1992).
-Avi