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julesh · 18w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqknzsux7p6lzwzdedp3m8c3c92z0swzc0xyy5glvse58txj5e9ztqt54hp5 I wonder what this looks like for rings that have very little to do with numbers, like...
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@nprofile1q... - if the rings are "too infinite", like the ring of continuous real-valued functions on the real interval, the sum in the definition of the Hasse-Weil zeta function doesn't converge and we should probably leave it alone.

For finite boolean rings it's not so bad! For the 2-element ring with 'and' as times and 'exor' as plus, the zeta function is

1/(1 - 2ˢ).

(Whoops - just noticed a pile of minus sign typos I need to fix. Thanks!)
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julesh · 18w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqknzsux7p6lzwzdedp3m8c3c92z0swzc0xyy5glvse58txj5e9ztqt54hp5 I wonder if there's some model theoretic universality result that all finite (or not too big) commutative rings embed into one specific commutative ring that involves numbers, like the r...