%0 Journal Article %T Topological Jordan decompositions %A Loren Spice %J Mathematics %D 2006 %I arXiv %X The notion of a topological Jordan decomposition of a compact element of a reductive p-adic group has proven useful in many contexts. In this paper, we generalise it to groups defined over fairly general discretely-valued fields and prove the usual existence and uniqueness properties, as well as an analogue of a fixed-point result of Prasad and Yu. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612475v2