Duality theory of $p$-adic Hopf algebras

Abstract

We show the monoidal functoriality of Schikhof duality, and cultivate new duality theory of $p$-adic Hopf algebras. Through the duality, we introduce two sorts of $p$-adic Pontryagin dualities. One is a duality between discrete Abelian groups and affine formal group schemes of specific type, and the other one is a duality between profinite Abelian groups and analytic groups of specific type. We extend Amice transform to a $p$-adic Fourier transform compatible with the second $p$-adic Pontryagin duality. As applications, we give explicit presentations of a universal family of irreducible $p$-adic unitary Banach representations of the open unit disc of the general linear group and its $q$-deformation in the case of dimension $2$.