Multiplicative units in monoids with norms #
A multiplicative unit is an invertible element whose left multiplication scales every norm by its own norm. This notion uses only multiplication and a real-valued norm; no addition or norm inequality is required. It singles out the units needed in norm estimates when the norm need not be multiplicative.
Multiplicative units are closed under multiplication and inversion, and norm-preserving multiplicative equivalences preserve and reflect them. Powers of multiplicative units are multiplicative units. In a norm-one monoid, so is one, and the norms of powers are the powers of the norm. In a commutative norm-one monoid, finite products of multiplicative units are multiplicative units, with the product of the norms as norm.
An element of nonzero norm scaling all norms exactly forces ‖1‖ = 1; if it is a unit, its
inverse has reciprocal norm.
References #
- F. Martin, Overconvergent subanalytic subsets in the framework of Berkovich spaces, J. Eur. Math. Soc. 18 (2016), Definition 1.20 and Lemma 1.21.
Units scaling the norm exactly #
A multiplicative unit is invertible.
Multiplicative units are closed under multiplication.
One is a multiplicative unit in a norm-one monoid.
Powers of a multiplicative unit are multiplicative units.
The norm of a power of a multiplicative unit is the power of its norm.
The inverse of a multiplicative unit is again multiplicative.
Finite products of multiplicative units are multiplicative units.
The norm of a finite product of multiplicative units is the product of their norms.
In a monoid with multiplicative norm every unit is a multiplicative unit.