In the early sixties, Amice ([Am1], [Am2]) studied the space of K-valued, locally analytic functions on Z Z p and formulated a complete description of its dual, the ring of K-valued, locally Q p-analytic distributions on Z Z p , when K is a complete subfield of C p. She found an isomorphism between the ring of distributions and the space of global functions on a rigid variety over K parameteriz...

1.1. Motivation. This paper is largely concerned with constructing quotients by étale equivalence relations. We are inspired by questions in classical rigid geometry, but to give satisfactory answers in that category we have to first solve quotient problems within the framework of Berkovich’s k-analytic spaces. One source of motivation is the relationship between algebraic spaces and analytic s...