International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2004 (2004), Issue 6, Pages 295-318
doi:10.1155/S0161171204210419

On a trivial zero problem

Shaowei Zhang

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, 02215, MA, USA

Received 25 October 2002

Copyright © 2004 Shaowei Zhang. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

One trivial zero phenomenon for p-adic analytic function is considered. We then prove that the first derivative of this function is essentially the Kummer class associated with p.