Shadowing and Stability of Non-Invertible $$p$$-Adic Dynamics

The stability theory of compact metric spaces with positive topological dimension is a well-established area in Dynamical Systems. A central result, attributed to Walters, connects the concepts of topological stability and the shadowing property in invertible dynamics. In contrast, zero-dimensional stability theory is a developing field, with an analogue of Walters’ theorem for Cantor spaces being fully established only in 2019 by Kawaguchi. In this paper, we investigate the shadowing and stability properties of non-invertible dynamics in zero-dimensional spaces, focusing on the $$p$$ -adic integers $$\mathbb{Z}_{p} $$ and the $$p$$ -adic numbers $$\mathbb{Q}_{p}$$ , where $$p \geq 2$$ is a prime number. The main result provides sufficient conditions under which the following families of maps exhibit strong shadowing and stability properties: 1) $$p$$ -adic dynamical systems that are right-invertible through contractions, and 2) left-invertible contractions. Consequently, new examples of stable $$p$$ -adic dynamics are presented.