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It's well-known that any one dimensional formal group law over a $\mathbb Q$-algebra or a reduced ring is commutative, but there are one dimensioal non-commutative formal group laws over rings like $k[\epsilon]/(\epsilon^2)$, where $k$ is a characterestic $p>0$ algebraically closed field (for example, take $F(X,Y)=X+Y+\epsilon XY^p$).

It's easy to classify one dimensional commutative formal group laws over $k[\epsilon]/(\epsilon^2)$ up to isomorphism by deformation theory. How about non-commutative ones? In other words, what is the full classification of one dimensional (non-commutative) formal group laws over $k[\epsilon]/(\epsilon^n)$ $(n>1)$ ?

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  • $\begingroup$ There's a well developed theory of deformations of formal groups. You can read a little bit about some aspects of it in the following (excellent) answer on MO mathoverflow.net/a/114695/22810 $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 20, 2020 at 20:57

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