Spectral dimension of $p$-adic integers

Abstract

The notion of spectral dimension was introduced by Chakraborty and Pal in \cite{cp}. In this paper, we show that the spectral dimension of the ring of $p$-adic integers, $\mathbb{Z}_p$, is equal to its manifold dimension, which is $0$. Finally, we determine the $K$-groups of $\mathbb{Z}_p$, and show that the generators of $K_0(\mathbb{Z}_p)$ can be expressed as finite span of the characters of $\mathbb{Z}_p$.