Definition:Norm on Division Ring

Definition
Let $\left({R, +, \circ}\right)$ be a division ring, and denote its zero by $0_R$.

A norm on $R$ is a mapping on $R$ to the nonnegative real numbers $\left\Vert{\cdot}\right\Vert: R \to \R_{\ge 0}$ satisfying the following three properties (for all $x, y \in R$):

These may be referred to as the (division ring) norm axioms.

Also known as
Some authors refer to this concept as an (abstract) absolute value on $R$.

A field that is endowed with a norm is thereby referred as a valued field.

Also defined as
In the literature, it is more common to define the norm only for subfields of the complex numbers.

However, the definition given here incorporates this approach.

Also see

 * Definition:Complex Modulus
 * Definition:Norm (Vector Space)