Local compactness of finite adele rings #
The finite adele ring of a Dedekind domain with finite residue fields is locally compact. Each
adic completion is a nonarchimedean local field, and its integer ring is compact and open. The
result then follows from the local-compactness theorem for restricted products. If the Dedekind
domain is moreover countable, the finite adele ring is σ-compact: every finite adele has a common
denominator b, so it lies in one of the countably many compact sets b⁻¹ · ∏_v 𝒪_v.
The finite-residue-field hypothesis is stated directly, rather than specialized to rings of integers, so this applies to every Dedekind domain for which the same local compactness argument is valid.
Main results #
IsDedekindDomain.FiniteAdeleRing.instLocallyCompactSpace: the finite adele ring is locally compact when all residue fields are finite.IsDedekindDomain.FiniteAdeleRing.instSigmaCompactSpace: the finite adele ring is σ-compact when moreover the Dedekind domain is countable.
References #
- J. W. S. Cassels and A. Fröhlich, eds., Algebraic Number Theory, Chapter II, §14.
The finite adele ring of a Dedekind domain with finite residue fields is locally compact.
The finite adele ring of a countable Dedekind domain with finite residue fields is σ-compact.