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Weinstein, the geometry of Lubin-Tate spaces

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• Jared Weinstein?, the geometry of Lubi-Tate spaces, Lecture 1: Formal groups and formal modules, pdf

Table of contents

• Motivation: the local Kronecker-Weber theorem.

• Formal groups and formal $O_F$ -modules

• The invariant differential form, and the logarithm.

• Formal groups: Categorical definition.

• The de Rham complex, and the module $D(G/A)$.

• The crystalline nature of $H_{\mathrm{dR}}^1$

• The action of Frobenius.

• The Dieudonné module.

• More on Dieudonné theory (but not quite enough).

• The Grothendieck-Messing crystal.