A note on global pth powers of rigid analytic functions Original Research Article

Assume that K is a perfect field of characteristic p>0 that is complete with respect to an ultrametric valuation, and let X be a rigid analytic variety over K. Suppose that X is smooth and connected with respect to its Grothendieck topology. Let f be a (global) function on X the differential of which vanishes locally at some point of X; then f is the pth power of a (global) function.