Spectral theory for p-adic operators

Abstract

We establish an algorithm for a criterion of the diagonalisability of a matrix over a local field by a unitary matrix. For this sake, we define the notion of normality of a $p$-adic operator, and give several criteria for the normality. We study the relation between the normality and the reduction. In the finite dimensional case, the normality of an operator is equivalent to the diagonalisability of a matrix by a unitary matrix. Therefore we also study the relation between the diagonalisability and the reduction. For example, we show that the diagonalisation of the reduction gives a partition of unity corresponding to the reduction of the spectrum, which gives a functorial lift of the eigenspace decomposition of the reduction.