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IJMMS 31:1 (2002) 23–29 PII. S0161171202110398 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. ASYMPTOTIC HÖLDER ABSOLUTE VALUES E. MUÑOZ GARCIA Received 12 October 2001 We prove that asymptotic Hölder absolute values are Hölder equivalent to classical abso- lute values. As a corollary we obtain a generalization of Ostrowski’s theorem and a classi- cal theorem by E. Artin. The theorem presented implies a new, more flexible, definition of classical absolute value. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 12J20, 12J10, 16W80, 13J99. 1. Introduction. Asymptotic Hölder absolute values generalize the notions of clas- sical absolute value and of Hölder absolute value. A Hölder absolute value (HAV) sat- isfies an approximate triangle inequality and multiplicative property. More precisely, let C ≥ 1 and C ≥ 1. A (C ,C )-Hölder absolute value on a ring R is a mapping 1 2 1 2 · : R → R+ satisfying: (HAV1) for x ∈ R , x = 0 x = 0; (HAV2) for x,y ∈ R , x +y ≤ C2 (x +y ); (HAV3) for x,y ∈ R , C −1 x y ≤ xy ≤ C1 x y . 1 It is known that HAV on a ring are Hölder equivalent to a classical ones. More precisely, we have the following theorem (see [2]). Theorem 1.1 (Hölder rigidity). Let · : R → R be a (C ,C )-Hölder absolute value + 1 2 on a commutative ring R with unit element. There exists an absolute value on R, | · | : R → R+, which is (Cα ,α)-Hölder equivalent to · with α = log2 (2C2 ), that is, for x ∈ R, 1 −α α α α C1 |x | ≤ x ≤ C1 |x | . (1.1)