nLab p-typical formal group law

Properties

Relation to Brown-Peterson spectrum

$p$-Typical formal groups are related to the Brown-Peterson spectrum as ordinary formal groups are related to MU.

Related concepts

• formal group law

• Brown-Peterson spectrum

References

Section 19 of

• Mike Hopkins, Complex oriented cohomology theories and the language of stacks, course notes (pdf)

Appendix 2 of

• Doug Ravenel, Complex cobordism and stable homotopy groups of spheres

Code to compute the coefficients of $p$-typical formal groups

• Carl McTague, Computing p-Typical Formal Group Laws