p-adic ultrametric
noun1
Mathematics, Number theory, Sciences The ultrametric with prime number p as parameter defined as d_p(x,y)=|x-y|ₚ; i.e., such that the distance between two rational numbers is equal to the p-adic absolute value of the difference between those two numbers.
- On p-adic ultrametrics in the genome / In previous section we demonstrated that codons and amino acids are elements of some p-adic ultrametric spaces.2017 September 15, Branko Dragovich, Andrei Yu. Khrennikov, Nataša Ž. Mišić, “Ultrametrics in the genetic code and the genome”, in Applied Mathematics and Computation, volume 309, →DOI, pages 350–358:
- Related terms
- p-adic number
- Hypernyms
- ultrametric