p-adic abelian integrals and commutative Lie groups

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to propose an ``elementary" approach to Coleman's theory of p-adic abelian integrals. Our main tool is a theory of commutative p-adic Lie groups (the logarithm map); we use neither dagger analysis nor Monsky-Washnitzer cohomology theory. Notice that we also treat the case of bad reduction. A preliminary version of this paper appeared as Expos\'e 9 dans ``Problemes Diophantiens 88-89" (D. Bertrand, M. Waldschmidt), Publ. Math. Univ. Paris VI 90(1990), 15 pp.