On Onp

Abstract

Generalizing John Conway's construction of the Field On2, we give the "minimal" definitions of addition and multiplication that turn the ordinals into a Field of characteristic p, for any prime p. We then analyze the structure of the resulting Field, which we will call Onp.

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