Non-Archimedean Fréchet Algebras and the Loop Space of a Hypersurface Complement

Abstract

We study the space of loops into a hypersurface complement, and show that the corresponding topological algebra of Laurent series with coefficients in $\mathcal{O}(L{\mathbf{A}}_f^d)$ is a topological localisation of $\mathcal{O}(L{\mathbf{A}}^d)$. This requires introducing a small amount of non-Archimedean functional analysis. In particular we work with topological algebras whose topology is generated by a family of sub-multiplicative, non-Archimedean semi-norms.