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arxiv: 1504.01408 · v2 · pith:FDNSU4CMnew · submitted 2015-03-20 · 🧮 math.NT

The p-adic integers as final coalgebra

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We express the classical $p$-adic integers $\hat{\mathbb{Z}_p}$, as a metric space, as a final colagebra to a certain endofunctor. We realize the addition and the multiplication on $\hat{\mathbb{Z}_p}$ as the coalgebra maps from $\hat{\mathbb{Z}_p} \times \hat{\mathbb{Z}_p}$.

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