I have a quiestion. I don't understand the meaning of "discrete" in the next theorem. I don't get why the author deduces that the set in the antepenultimate line is finite. The book is "Non-Archimedean Analysis" by S. Bosch, U. Güntzer and R. Remmert. The proposition is in page 15. Thank you for your help.
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What's the meaning of "discrete" in the next theorem?
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Usually, in this context, discrete means that the subspace topology of $|H-\{0\}|$ as a subspace of $(0,\infty)$ equipped with the order topology is the discrete topology. In other words, a subset $A$ of $(0,\infty)$ is discrete if $A$ can be covered by disjoint open intervals each of them containing only one element of $A$.
Every subgroup of $((0,\infty),\cdot)$ is either dense or discrete. And if it is discrete and non-trivial, then it is cyclic, i.e. of the form $\{s^n:n\in\mathbb{Z}\}$ for some $s\neq1$, $s>0$. A proof of this fact can be found in B.5.2 of Niel Shell, Topological fields and near valuations, Monographs and textbooks in pure and applied mathematics, vol. 135, Dekker, 1990.
In your posted Proposition 4, we can assume that $|H-\{0\}|=\{s^n:n\in\mathbb{Z}\}$ for some $s\neq1$, $s>0$.
Therefore, if $\alpha>0$ then $|H-\{0\}|\cap [\alpha,\alpha+1)$ is finite. Then every subset of it will be finite as well, indeed, $\{|a+h|: h\in H \mbox{ and }|aH|\leq|a+h|<|aH|+1 \}$ is finite because it is a subset of $$|H-\{0\}|\cap [|aH|,|aH|+1).$$