## Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin

### Ultrametric umbral calculus in characteristic $p$

Bertin Diarra

#### Abstract

The question to have an umbral calculus in non zero characteristic $p$, has been considered on some special subspaces of the space of polynomials, for instance subspaces of the space of additive polynomials with coefficients in a complete valued field of characteristic $p$ and their closure in spaces of continuous functions. In her PhD thesis, M. Héraoua has given an umbral calculus on the so called ring of formal differential operators which has a coalgebra structure. In many respects, this umbral calculus is as in the classical umbral calculus in characteristic zero. It turns out that the technique used by M. Héraoua can be extended in the topological case. More precisely, let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be the finite field with $q$ elements and $\mathbb{F}_q[[T]]$ be the ring of formal power series with coefficients in $\mathbb{F}_q$. Then with the addition of formal power series and the $T$-adic topology, $\mathbb{F}_q[[T]]$ is a totally discontinuous compact group. Let $K$ be a complete valued field, extension of the valued field of formal Laurent series $\mathbb{F}_q((T))$, then it is well known that the space of continuous functions $\mathcal{C}(\mathbb{F}_q[[T]] , K)$ is an ultrametric Hopf algebra. The coalgebra structure of $\mathcal{C}(\mathbb{F}_q[[T]] , K)$ is that of a binomial divided power coalgebra. In a previous work we have described the algebra of difference operators of the Banach coalgebra $\mathcal{C}(\mathbb{F}_q[[T]] , K)$. Here, we show that the Keigher-Pritchard's divided powers of an element of the maximal ideal of the dual algebra of $\mathcal{C}(\mathbb{F}_q[[T]] , K)$ can be performed. With this, and the fact that the algebra of difference operators is isomorphic to the latter dual algebra, one recovers much part of classical umbral calculus.

#### Article information

Source
Bull. Belg. Math. Soc. Simon Stevin, Volume 14, Number 5 (2007), 845-869.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 17 December 2007

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bbms/1197908899

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.36045/bbms/1197908899

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2378993

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1173.05006

#### Citation

Diarra, Bertin. Ultrametric umbral calculus in characteristic $p$. Bull. Belg. Math. Soc. Simon Stevin 14 (2007), no. 5, 845--869. doi:10.36045/bbms/1197908899. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bbms/1197908899