Introduction to Arithmetic Geometry
Major topics topics coverd are:
Absolute values on fields, Ostrowski's classification of absolute values on U,
Cauchy sequences and completion, Inverse limits,Properties of Zp, The field of P
-Adic numbers, P-adic expansions, Hensel's lemma, Finite fields, Profinite
groups, Affine varieties, Morphisms and rational maps, Quadratic forms, Rational
points on conics and Valuations on the function field of a curve.
Author(s): Bjorn Poonen
70 Pages