International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Jan 2001)

p-adic difference-difference Lotka-Volterra equation and ultra-discrete limit

  • Shigeki Matsutani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/S0161171201010808
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 4
pp. 251 – 260

Abstract

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We study the difference-difference Lotka-Volterra equations in p-adic number space and its p-adic valuation version. We point out that the structure of the space given by taking the ultra-discrete limit is the same as that of the p-adic valuation space. Since ultra-discrete limit can be regarded as a classical limit of a quantum object, it implies that a correspondence between classical and quantum objects might be associated with valuation theory.