Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 136 3 a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
A Lubin–Tate series for is a power series such thatThe 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 givesThus is the Lubin–Tate formal group as a formal -module, with .
For another Lubin–Tate series , apply the lemma with to obtainUniqueness 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.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 136 3 c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Over , consider the two Lubin–Tate seriesBoth 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 satisfySince , the required equality follows.