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On the moduli stack of commutative, 1-parameter formal Lie groups

Algebraic Geometry 2007-09-28 v3 Category Theory

Abstract

We attempt to develop a general algebro-geometric study of the moduli stack of commutative, 1-parameter formal Lie groups. We emphasize the pro-algebraic structure of this stack: it is the inverse limit, over varying n, of moduli stacks of n-buds, and these latter stacks are algebraic. Our main results pertain to aspects of the height stratification relative to fixed prime p on the stacks of buds and formal Lie groups. We conclude with a largely expository account of some foundational material on limits in bicategories.

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@article{arxiv.0708.3326,
  title  = {On the moduli stack of commutative, 1-parameter formal Lie groups},
  author = {Brian D. Smithling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.3326},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

69 pages; submitted for publication. This version is slightly condensed and reorganized from the previous one, and much of the introduction has been rewritten. There are no mathematical changes

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