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P-adic conformal invariance and the Bruhat—Tits tree

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It is shown that some Gaussian and non-Gaussian scaling invariant p-adic field theories are invariant under the group of transformations which conserve the p-adic norm of the cross-ratio of any four points. This group can be treated as a p-adic conformal group. It has a continuation on the Bruhat—Tits tree, being an automorphism group of that tree. The models also have tree continuation, in particular the binary correlation function of the tree model is a spherical function.

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Lerner, E.Y., Missarov, M.D. P-adic conformal invariance and the Bruhat—Tits tree. Lett Math Phys 22, 123–129 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00405176

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