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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 125 2 b Solution by
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In this setting a formal group law means a one-dimensional commutative series withThese identities force terms of total degree at least two. There is a unique formal inverse with .
A morphism to another formal group law is a series satisfying . The invertible morphism criterion for formal group laws isNecessity follows by comparing linear coefficients in . For sufficiency, solve recursively for a compositional inverse : at every stage the new coefficient is obtained by dividing by the unit , so all coefficients stay in . Applying to the morphism identity shows that is itself a group homomorphism of formal group laws.
In particular, the multiplication series satisfies . Since , the multiplication isomorphism of a formal group law makes invertible over . Its series and inverse converge on , so multiplication by is bijective on , and on for every finite extension .
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