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Formal Groups and Applications

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Michiel Hazewinkel

Publication: AMS Chelsea Publishing
Publication Year: 2012; Volume 375
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5349-8 (print); 978-0-8218-9400-2 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/chel/375

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Chapters

• Chapter 1. Methods for constructing one dimensional formal groups
• Chapter 2. Methods for constructing higher dimensional formal group laws
• Chapter 3. Curves, $p$-typical formal group laws, and lots of Witt vectors
• Chapter 4. Homomorphisms, endomorphisms, and the classification of formal groups by power series methods
• Chapter 5. Cartier-Dieudonné modules
• Chapter 6. Applications of formal groups in algebraic topology, number theory, and algebraic geometry
• Chapter 7. Formal groups and bialgebras
• Appendix A. On power series rings
• Appendix B. Brief notes on further applications of formal group (law) theory