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The concept of a distribution, as given in this chapter, is one that occurs repeatedly in mathematics, especially in the theory of cyclotomic fields. As we shall see, many ideas from Chapters 4, 5, 7, and 8 fit into this general framework. The related concept of a measure yields a p-adic integration theory which allows us to interpret the p-adic L-function as a Mellin transform, as in the classical case.
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Washington, L.C. (1982). Measures and Distributions. In: Introduction to Cyclotomic Fields. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 83. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0133-2_12
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