The two Lubin–Tate series and for have respective nonzero -torsion points and the roots of . A Lubin–Tate change of series identifies their torsion fields, so
A Lubin–Tate series for is a power series such that
The key Lubin–Tate lemma is that if and are such series and with , there is a unique series satisfying
Taking and defines . Uniqueness applied to the two sides of each identity proves the identity, associativity, and commutativity axioms, so is a formal group law. Taking defines endomorphisms , and uniqueness gives
Thus is the Lubin–Tate formal group as a formal -module, with .
For another Lubin–Tate series , apply the lemma with to obtain
Uniqueness shows that respects both formal addition and every scalar endomorphism. Its linear coefficient is the unit one, so it has a compositional inverse; equivalently, applying the lemma with and reversed supplies the inverse. Hence this Lubin–Tate change of series is an isomorphism of formal -modules.
Over , consider the two Lubin–Tate series
Both have linear term and reduce to modulo . The nonzero roots of are , while the nonzero roots of satisfy
The Lubin–Tate change of series and its inverse have coefficients in and converge on the maximal ideal. They therefore give mutually inverse bijections between the first torsion sets without changing the fields generated by them. Hence the first Lubin–Tate torsion fields for the p-adic numbers satisfy
Since , the required equality follows.