Primitive elements in $p$-divisible groups
Number Theory
2017-06-08 v2 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
We introduce the notion of primitive elements in arbitrary truncated -divisible groups. By design, the scheme of primitive elements is finite and locally free over the base. Primitive elements generalize the "points of exact order ," developed by Drinfeld and Katz-Mazur for elliptic curves.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1510.02814,
title = {Primitive elements in $p$-divisible groups},
author = {Robert Kottwitz and Preston Wake},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.02814},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
11 pages. Minor revisions