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Non-Archimedian Geometry and Applications to Particle Theory

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To begin, I shall give a very elementary introduction to p-adic numbers. I apologize to the cognoscenti but experience suggests that if I start talking about details of p-adic strings all but a small minority of the audience will be unable to follow.

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Frampton, P.H. (1990). Non-Archimedian Geometry and Applications to Particle Theory. In: Chau, LL., Nahm, W. (eds) Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 245. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9148-7_40

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